Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:48:57 -0800 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix VMI crash on boot in 2.6.27+ kernels |
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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.
-hpa
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