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Re: [Xen-devel] upgrade to 2.6.18.8 ?

To: Michael Marineau <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] upgrade to 2.6.18.8 ?
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:44:34 +0100
Cc: Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Teck Choon Giam <giamteckchoon@xxxxxxxxx>
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On 10/10/07 21:32, "Michael Marineau" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Wow, this appears (at least in my quick test today) to be the cause of
> the oops I keep hitting, reported in the thread titled "Hunting down
> an oops in Xen 3.1.0's 2.6.18 kernel". I would *highly* recommend the
> attached trivial patch to disable HIGHPTE to avoid this.

Yes, I can easily repro this with CONFIG_HIGHPTE and 'vmalloc=700M' on
dom0's cmdline (to force most dom0 memory to be highmem). Then I balloon
down to 128 megabytes and a crash happens very soon after. We should fix
this rather than disable the option.

 -- Keir



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