This is because the P2M table, when placed at a kernel specified location, gets populated with large pages, which the domain must have a way to unmap/recycle. Additionally when allowing Dom0 to use superpages, they ought to be tracked accordingly in the superpage frame table. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich --- 2010-06-15.orig/xen/arch/x86/domain_build.c 2010-06-15 12:22:11.000000000 +0200 +++ 2010-06-15/xen/arch/x86/domain_build.c 2010-06-15 11:30:19.000000000 +0200 @@ -913,6 +913,8 @@ int __init construct_dom0( { *l2tab = l2e_from_page(page, L1_PROT|_PAGE_DIRTY|_PAGE_PSE); + if ( opt_allow_superpage ) + get_superpage(page_to_mfn(page), d); va += 1UL << L2_PAGETABLE_SHIFT; continue; } --- 2010-06-15.orig/xen/arch/x86/mm.c 2010-06-15 12:22:11.000000000 +0200 +++ 2010-06-15/xen/arch/x86/mm.c 2010-06-15 11:31:24.000000000 +0200 @@ -154,7 +154,9 @@ unsigned long __read_mostly pdx_group_va int opt_allow_superpage; boolean_param("allowsuperpage", opt_allow_superpage); +#ifdef __i386__ static int get_superpage(unsigned long mfn, struct domain *d); +#endif static void put_superpage(unsigned long mfn); #define l1_disallow_mask(d) \ @@ -2567,7 +2569,7 @@ void clear_superpage_mark(struct page_in } -static int get_superpage(unsigned long mfn, struct domain *d) +int get_superpage(unsigned long mfn, struct domain *d) { struct spage_info *spage; unsigned long x, nx, y; @@ -2610,7 +2612,11 @@ static void put_superpage(unsigned long unsigned long x, nx, y; unsigned long do_pages = 0; - ASSERT(opt_allow_superpage); + if ( !opt_allow_superpage ) + { + put_spage_pages(mfn_to_page(mfn)); + return; + } spage = mfn_to_spage(mfn); y = spage->type_info; --- 2010-06-15.orig/xen/include/asm-x86/mm.h 2010-06-15 12:22:11.000000000 +0200 +++ 2010-06-15/xen/include/asm-x86/mm.h 2010-06-15 11:28:58.000000000 +0200 @@ -281,6 +281,7 @@ extern void share_xen_page_with_privileg #define frame_table ((struct page_info *)FRAMETABLE_VIRT_START) #ifdef __x86_64__ #define spage_table ((struct spage_info *)SPAGETABLE_VIRT_START) +int get_superpage(unsigned long mfn, struct domain *d); #endif extern unsigned long max_page; extern unsigned long total_pages;