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Re: [Xen-devel] [patch] kexec is not highmem-aware

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [patch] kexec is not highmem-aware
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:43:54 +0100
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On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 16:11 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> I guess xen_create_contiguous_region is happy to operate on a
> temporarily kmapped page which are immediately unmapped since we only
> care that the MFN has been moved below the limit.

Turns out this is not the case, x_c_c_r doesn't work for highmem and
kmap gets very upset if the p2m mapping changes under its feet.

I think 78:0be610b725fa in the linux-2.6.18-xen.hg staging tree
addresses the issue.

Ian.



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