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Message-ID: <4856E126.2040400@goop.org>
Date:	Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:54:46 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>
CC:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] xen: reserve Xen-specific memory in e820 map

Make sure that the start_info and pfn->mfn translation array are reserved.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
---
 arch/x86/xen/setup.c |   13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

===================================================================
--- a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
@@ -40,8 +40,21 @@
 	max_pfn = min(MAX_DOMAIN_PAGES, max_pfn);
 
 	e820.nr_map = 0;
+
 	e820_add_region(0, LOWMEMSIZE(), E820_RAM);
 	e820_add_region(HIGH_MEMORY, PFN_PHYS(max_pfn)-HIGH_MEMORY, E820_RAM);
+
+	/*
+	 * Reserve Xen bits:
+	 *  - mfn_list
+	 *  - xen_start_info
+	 * See comment above "struct start_info" in <xen/interface/xen.h>
+	 */
+	e820_add_region(__pa(xen_start_info->mfn_list),
+			xen_start_info->pt_base - xen_start_info->mfn_list,
+			E820_RESERVED);
+
+	sanitize_e820_map(e820.map, ARRAY_SIZE(e820.map), &e820.nr_map);
 
 	return "Xen";
 }


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