Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/xen: Disable DMI parsing in Xen kernel.

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Feb 28 2008 - 05:45:06 EST



* Ian Campbell <ijc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > Looks like the only sane solution will be to mark regions between
> > > 640K-1M reserved early on in boot.
> >
> > and as luck has it, such a patch from Alexander van Heukelum has
> > been put into x86.git#testing just yesterday.
> >
> > So ... could you try x86.git#testing - does it work out of box? Is
> > the reservation early enough to prevent pagetables be allocated in
> > weird places?
>
> That patch is 64 bit only and also I'm not sure what EBDA looks like
> to a Xen domU (I expect it doesn't exist). I'll give it a go but I'm
> not hopeful.

it was requested to be unified to 32 bit as well already - no patch yet.
I'd gladly take a patch that does it - it fixing 32-bit Xen guests would
be an added bonus. Perhaps this all should be done by injecting a very
eary e820 filter instead of reserving it later on? 640k..1M being
special is a deep PC legacy, i doubt we'll ever recover from it ;-)

Ingo
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