linux-kernel - Re: Change 5c371b31be3203 in stable breaks Xen

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Date:	Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:06:04 +0000
From:	Ian Campbell <ijc@...lion.org.uk>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	Stable Kernel <stable@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Daniel Schröder <mail@...hroeder.info>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Change 5c371b31be3203 in stable breaks Xen

On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 13:26 -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> I have a report of Xen breaking between 2.6.27.5 and .6.  I bisected
> it 
> down to change:
> 
> commit 5c371b31be32033b0a4a993431484da8a2305369
> Author: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
> Date:   Mon Sep 22 02:52:26 2008 -0700
> 
>     x86: fix CONFIG_X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K=y
>    
>     commit 2216d199b1430d1c0affb1498a9ebdbd9c0de439 upstream

Looks like 5dc64a3442b98eaa0e3730c35fcf00cf962a93e7 might be needed in
stable too?
        
        commit 5dc64a3442b98eaa0e3730c35fcf00cf962a93e7
        Author: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
        Date:   Fri Oct 10 11:27:38 2008 +0100
        
            xen: do not reserve 2 pages of padding between hypervisor and fixmap.
            
            When reserving space for the hypervisor the Xen paravirt backend adds
            an extra two pages (this was carried forward from the 2.6.18-xen tree
            which had them "for safety"). Depending on various CONFIG options this
            can cause the boot time fixmaps to span multiple PMDs which is not
            supported and triggers a WARN in early_ioremap_init().
            
            This was exposed by 2216d199b1430d1c0affb1498a9ebdbd9c0de439 which
            moved the dmi table parsing earlier.
                x86: fix CONFIG_X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K=y
            
                The bad_bios_dmi_table() quirk never triggered because we do DMI setup
                too late. Move it a bit earlier.
            
            There is no real reason to reserve these two extra pages and the
            fixmap already incorporates FIX_HOLE which serves the same
            purpose. None of the other callers of reserve_top_address do this.


-- 
Ian Campbell

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