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SubjectRe: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/p2m: Check __brk_limit before allocating.
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 08:53:02AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 16:23 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/p2m.c b/arch/x86/xen/p2m.c
> > index 64effdc..b5bb26c 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/xen/p2m.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/xen/p2m.c
> > @@ -498,7 +498,14 @@ static bool alloc_p2m(unsigned long pfn)
> >
> > return true;
> > }
> > -
> > +#include <asm/sections.h>
> > +bool __init can_extend_brk()
> > +{
> > + /* Always reserve one for the DMI extend_brk call. */
>
> That seems a bit fragile, what if someone adds something else or the
> link order changes etc?
>
> Can't we just have a variant of extend_brk which returns NULL instead of
> BUG_ON and do error checking?
>
> Or even just change extend_brk and push the BUG_ONs out to the callers
> -- there aren't that many of them.

Good thinking. Let me redo it that way and see get x86 folks input.
>
> Ian.
> --
> Ian Campbell
>
>
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