linux-kernel - Re: [tip:core/memblock] x86-64: Only set max_pfn_mapped to 512 MiB if we enter via head

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Message-ID: <20101014060617.GA4751@elte.hu>
Date:	Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:06:17 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com, jeremy@...p.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	hpa@...ux.intel.com, jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:core/memblock] x86-64: Only set max_pfn_mapped to 512 MiB
 if we enter via head_64.S


* Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:

> * tip-bot for Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org> wrote:
> 
> > Commit-ID:  859ee4f57fb4e91de8439496f62eb996f4a28ca8
> > Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/859ee4f57fb4e91de8439496f62eb996f4a28ca8
> > Author:     Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
> > AuthorDate: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:34:15 -0700
> > Committer:  H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
> > CommitDate: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:09:59 -0700
> > 
> > x86-64: Only set max_pfn_mapped to 512 MiB if we enter via head_64.S
> > 
> > head_64.S maps up to 512 MiB, but that is not necessarity true for
> > other entry paths, such as Xen.
> 
> These two commits are a boot crasher on x86 defconfig (64-bit):

Caused by this one of the two:

  859ee4f: x86-64: Only set max_pfn_mapped to 512 MiB if we enter via head_64.S

	Ingo
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