The patch "xen: use maximum reservation to limit amount of usable RAM"
(
d312ae878b6aed3912e1acaaf5d0b2a9d08a4f11) breaks machines that
do not use 'dom0_mem=' argument with:
reserve RAM buffer:
000000133f2e2000 -
000000133fffffff
(XEN) mm.c:4976:d0 Global bit is set to kernel page
fffff8117e
(XEN) domain_crash_sync called from entry.S
(XEN) Domain 0 (vcpu#0) crashed on cpu#0:
...
The reason being that the last E820 entry is created using the
'extra_pages' (which is based on how many pages have been freed).
The mentioned git commit sets the initial value of 'extra_pages'
using a hypercall which returns the number of pages (if dom0_mem
has been used) or -1 otherwise. If the later we return with
MAX_DOMAIN_PAGES as basis for calculation:
return min(max_pages, MAX_DOMAIN_PAGES);
and use it:
extra_limit = xen_get_max_pages();
if (extra_limit >= max_pfn)
extra_pages = extra_limit - max_pfn;
else
extra_pages = 0;
which means we end up with extra_pages = 128GB in PFNs (
33554432)
- 8GB in PFNs (2097152, on this specific box, can be larger or smaller),
and then we add that value to the E820 making it:
Xen:
00000000ff000000 -
0000000100000000 (reserved)
Xen:
0000000100000000 -
000000133f2e2000 (usable)
which is clearly wrong. It should look as so:
Xen:
00000000ff000000 -
0000000100000000 (reserved)
Xen:
0000000100000000 -
000000027fbda000 (usable)
Naturally this problem does not present itself if dom0_mem=max:X
is used.
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
sanitize_e820_map(e820.map, ARRAY_SIZE(e820.map), &e820.nr_map);
extra_limit = xen_get_max_pages();
- if (extra_limit >= max_pfn)
- extra_pages = extra_limit - max_pfn;
- else
- extra_pages = 0;
+ if (max_pfn + extra_pages > extra_limit) {
+ if (extra_limit > max_pfn)
+ extra_pages = extra_limit - max_pfn;
+ else
+ extra_pages = 0;
+ }
extra_pages += xen_return_unused_memory(xen_start_info->nr_pages, &e820);