linux-kernel - Re: Crash while mapping memory in pagetable

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Date:	Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:10:35 -0700
From:	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Crash while mapping memory in pagetable_init() (Was: Re: .config)

* Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@...p.org) wrote:
> Subject: i386: map enough initial memory to create lowmem mappings
> 
> head.S creates the very initial pagetable for the kernel.  This just
> maps enough space for the kernel itself, and an allocation bitmap.
> The amount of mapped memory is rounded up to 4Mbytes, and so this
> typically ends up mapping 8Mbytes of memory.
> 
> When booting, pagetable_init() needs to create mappings for all
> lowmem, and the pagetables for these mappings are allocated from the
> free pages around the kernel in low memory.  If the number of
> pagetable pages + kernel size exceeds head.S's initial mapping, it
> will end up faulting on an unmapped page.  This will only happen with
> specific combinations of kernel size and memory size.
> 
> This patch makes sure that head.S also maps enough space to fit the
> kernel pagetables as well as the kernel itself.  It ends up using an
> additional two pages of unreclaimable memory.

Yup, fixes it up here, nice catch.

Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
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