Re: [PATCH] memblock: Add limit checking to memblock_virt_alloc

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Tue Jan 28 2014 - 20:51:32 EST


On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 02:47:57PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 01/28/2014 02:04 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >> In original bootmem wrapper for memblock, we have limit checking.
> >>
> >> Add it to memblock_virt_alloc, to address arm and x86 booting crash.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Do you have a git tree or cumulative set of patches that you'd like us
> > to all test? I'm happy to boot it on my system, I just want to make
> > sure I've got the same set that you're testing.
>
> This one should only affect on arm and x86 the 32 bit kernel with more
> then 4G RAM.

Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>

It fixes the issue I saw with Xen and 32-bit dom0 blowing up.

>
> thanks
>
> Yinghai
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