Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix VMI crash on boot in 2.6.27+ kernels | From | Zachary Amsden <> | Date | Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:31:21 -0800 |
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A. On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 17:48 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Yinghai Lu wrote: > > > > VMI initialiation can relocate the fixmap, causing early_ioremap > > to malfunction if it is initialized before the relocation. The > > ioremap area is low enough in virtual address space that no actual > > collision occurs, however, because the pagetables for it were not > > allocated under VMI mode, the pagetable updates are dropped by > > the hypervisor as irrelevant, resulting in a crash on boot. > > > > I have mentioned in the past that I think the very concept of relocating > the fixmap to be utterly braindead. Instead, I believe we should locate > it low in kernel space so it doesn't have to be relocated. It's > unfortunately a relatively large change.
I agree, but a bit too late for 2.6.27 stable and 2.6.28-rc.
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