linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/5] xen/i386: reserve Xen pagetables

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Date:	Thu, 07 May 2009 11:56:44 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/5] xen/i386: reserve Xen pagetables

The Xen pagetables are no longer implicitly reserved as part of the other
i386_start_kernel reservations, so make sure we explicitly reserve them.
This prevents them from being released into the general kernel free page
pool and reused.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>
---
 arch/x86/xen/mmu.c |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
index 9842b12..e25a78e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
@@ -1794,6 +1794,11 @@ __init pgd_t *xen_setup_kernel_pagetable(pgd_t *pgd,
 
 	pin_pagetable_pfn(MMUEXT_PIN_L3_TABLE, PFN_DOWN(__pa(swapper_pg_dir)));
 
+	reserve_early(__pa(xen_start_info->pt_base),
+		      __pa(xen_start_info->pt_base +
+			   xen_start_info->nr_pt_frames * PAGE_SIZE),
+		      "XEN PAGETABLES");
+
 	return swapper_pg_dir;
 }
 #endif	/* CONFIG_X86_64 */
-- 
1.6.0.6



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