Re: [PATCH -v3 0/7] x86: Use BRK to pre mapping page table to makexen happy

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Fri Nov 09 2012 - 15:31:03 EST


On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
> <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I ran in a problem with launching an 8GB guest. When launching a 4GB it worked
>> fine, but with 8GB I get:
>>
>> .000000] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x1f4000000-0x1f47fffff]
>> [ 0.000000] [mem 0x1f4000000-0x1f47fffff] page 4k
>> [ 0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x000001f311c000-0x000001f311d000] alloc_low_pages+0x103/0x130
>> [ 0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x000001f311b000-0x000001f311c000] alloc_low_pages+0x103/0x130
>> [ 0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x000001f311a000-0x000001f311b000] alloc_low_pages+0x103/0x130
>> [ 0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x000001f3119000-0x000001f311a000] alloc_low_pages+0x103/0x130
>> [ 0.000000] Kernel panic - not syncing: initrd too large to handle, disabling initrd (348401664 needed, 524288 available)
>> [ 0.000000]
>> [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.7.0-rc4upstream-00042-g1b66ccf #1
>> [ 0.000000] Call Trace:
>> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff81633a5c>] panic+0xbf/0x1df
>> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff81ac00e1>] setup_arch+0x728/0xb29
>> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff81633c48>] ? printk+0x48/0x4a
>> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff81aba897>] start_kernel+0x90/0x39e
>> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff81aba356>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x131/0x136
>> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff81abca38>] xen_start_kernel+0x546/0x548
>>
>
> xen memmap
>
> [ 0.000000] Xen: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000009ffff] usable
> [ 0.000000] Xen: [mem 0x00000000000a0000-0x00000000000fffff] reserved
> [ 0.000000] Xen: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x00000001f47fffff] usable
>
> there is no hole under 4G, trigger the bug about max_low_pfn_mapped updating in
> add_pfn_range_mapped().
>
> please check attached patch, that should fix the problem.
>
> then I will fold it into corresponding commit that instroduce
> add_pfn_range_mapped().
>

If you did not try the patch yet, please get for-x86-mm again.
I folded that patch into that commit about add_pfn_range_mapped.
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