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

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Date:	Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:32:44 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
CC:	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 wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Really (pae ? 2M : 1M), in other words, plus the 128K for bootmem. 
>> Note that this is creating page tables for, not erasing.  To map 2M,
>> we will only use 2K of additional memory (meaning there is 50% chance
>> we end up using an additional 4K page.)
>>
>> So the solution is simply to change INIT_MAP_BEYOND_END in head.S
>> appropriately.
> Like this?  Should we bother adding some slop pages for allocations
> which happen before paging_init()?

Yes, although it really should be sensitive to CONFIG_X86_PAE.

>  
>  /*
>   * This is how much memory *in addition to the memory covered up to
> - * and including _end* we need mapped initially.  We need one bit for
> - * each possible page, but only in low memory, which means
> - * 2^32/4096/8 = 128K worst case (4G/4G split.)
> + * and including _end* we need mapped initially.
> + * We need:
> + *  - one bit for each possible page, but only in low memory, which means
> + *     2^32/4096/8 = 128K worst case (4G/4G split.)
> + *  - enough space to map all low memory, which means
> + *     (2^32/4096) / 512 + 4 pages (worst case for PAE)
>   *
>   * Modulo rounding, each megabyte assigned here requires a kilobyte of
>   * memory, which is currently unreclaimed.
>   *
>   * This should be a multiple of a page.
>   */
> -#define INIT_MAP_BEYOND_END	(128*1024)
> +#define INIT_MAP_BEYOND_END	(128*1024 + (2048 + 4)*4096)

I suggest, for clarity and to minimize bloat:

#ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE
# define PAGE_TABLE_SIZE	((2048+4)*4096)
#else
# define PAGE_TABLE_SIZE	((1024+1)*4096)
#endif

#define BOOTMEM_SIZE		(128*1024)

#define INIT_MAP_BEYOND_END	(BOOTMEM_SIZE+PAGE_TABLE_SIZE)

	-hpa
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