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xen: prevent crashes with non-HIGHMEM 32-bit kernels with largeish memory
authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Thu, 2 Dec 2010 23:30:06 +0000 (15:30 -0800)
committerJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Thu, 2 Dec 2010 23:30:06 +0000 (15:30 -0800)
If this is a non-HIGHMEM 32-bit kernel, then the page structures only go
up to the limit of addressable memory, even if more memory is physically
present.  Don't try to add that extra memory to the balloon.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
drivers/xen/balloon.c

index 2b17ad5b4b32d27277a115de4cd2fd7834f7769d..43f9f02c7db0671668343fc19bed043fbbe61fad 100644 (file)
@@ -412,8 +412,16 @@ static int __init balloon_init(void)
 
        register_balloon(&balloon_sysdev);
 
-       /* Initialise the balloon with excess memory space. */
-       extra_pfn_end = min(e820_end_of_ram_pfn(),
+       /*
+        * Initialise the balloon with excess memory space.  We need
+        * to make sure we don't add memory which doesn't exist or
+        * logically exist.  The E820 map can be trimmed to be smaller
+        * than the amount of physical memory due to the mem= command
+        * line parameter.  And if this is a 32-bit non-HIGHMEM kernel
+        * on a system with memory which requires highmem to access,
+        * don't try to use it.
+        */
+       extra_pfn_end = min(min(max_pfn, e820_end_of_ram_pfn()),
                            (unsigned long)PFN_DOWN(xen_extra_mem_start + xen_extra_mem_size));
        for (pfn = PFN_UP(xen_extra_mem_start);
             pfn < extra_pfn_end;