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[Xen-devel] [PATCH 7/8] xen/i386: reserve Xen pagetables

To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 7/8] xen/i386: reserve Xen pagetables
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 13:25:01 -0700
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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>

The Xen pagetables are no longer implicitly reserved as part of the other
i386_start_kernel reservations, so make sure we explicitly reserve them.
This prevents them from being released into the general kernel free page
pool and reused.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/xen/mmu.c |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
index 0e13477..801d042 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
@@ -1799,6 +1799,11 @@ __init pgd_t *xen_setup_kernel_pagetable(pgd_t *pgd,
 
        pin_pagetable_pfn(MMUEXT_PIN_L3_TABLE, PFN_DOWN(__pa(swapper_pg_dir)));
 
+       reserve_early(__pa(xen_start_info->pt_base),
+                     __pa(xen_start_info->pt_base +
+                          xen_start_info->nr_pt_frames * PAGE_SIZE),
+                     "XEN PAGETABLES");
+
        return swapper_pg_dir;
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_X86_64 */
-- 
1.6.0.6


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