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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/init.c | 24 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init.c b/arch/x86/mm/init.c index 286d289..37b8b0f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/init.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init.c @@ -81,6 +81,11 @@ static void __init find_early_table_space(unsigned long end, int use_pse, end, pgt_buf_start << PAGE_SHIFT, pgt_buf_top << PAGE_SHIFT); } +void __init native_pagetable_reserve(u64 start, u64 end) +{ + memblock_x86_reserve_range(start, end, "PGTABLE"); +} + struct map_range { unsigned long start; unsigned long end; @@ -272,9 +277,24 @@ unsigned long __init_refok init_memory_mapping(unsigned long start, __flush_tlb_all(); + /* + * Reserve the kernel pagetable pages we used (pgt_buf_start - + * pgt_buf_end) and free the other ones (pgt_buf_end - pgt_buf_top) + * so that they can be reused for other purposes. + * + * On native it just means calling memblock_x86_reserve_range, on Xen it + * also means marking RW the pagetable pages that we allocated before + * but that haven't been used. + * + * In fact on xen we mark RO the whole range pgt_buf_start - + * pgt_buf_top, because we have to make sure that when + * init_memory_mapping reaches the pagetable pages area, it maps + * RO all the pagetable pages, including the ones that are beyond + * pgt_buf_end at that time. + */ if (!after_bootmem && pgt_buf_end > pgt_buf_start) - memblock_x86_reserve_range(pgt_buf_start << PAGE_SHIFT, - pgt_buf_end << PAGE_SHIFT, "PGTABLE"); + x86_init.mapping.pagetable_reserve(PFN_PHYS(pgt_buf_start), + PFN_PHYS(pgt_buf_end)); if (!after_bootmem) early_memtest(start, end); |