2006-05-09 08:56:37

by Chris Wright

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Subject: [RFC PATCH 09/35] Change __FIXADDR_TOP to leave room for the hypervisor.

Move the definition of __FIXADDR_TOP into a subarch include file so
that it can be overridden for subarch xen -- the hypervisor needs
about 64MB at the top of the address space.

Signed-off-by: Ian Pratt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[email protected]>
---
include/asm-i386/fixmap.h | 8 +-------
include/asm-i386/mach-default/mach_fixmap.h | 11 +++++++++++
include/asm-i386/mach-xen/mach_fixmap.h | 11 +++++++++++
3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- linus-2.6.orig/include/asm-i386/fixmap.h
+++ linus-2.6/include/asm-i386/fixmap.h
@@ -14,13 +14,7 @@
#define _ASM_FIXMAP_H

#include <linux/config.h>
-
-/* used by vmalloc.c, vsyscall.lds.S.
- *
- * Leave one empty page between vmalloc'ed areas and
- * the start of the fixmap.
- */
-#define __FIXADDR_TOP 0xfffff000
+#include <mach_fixmap.h>

#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
#include <linux/kernel.h>
--- /dev/null
+++ linus-2.6/include/asm-i386/mach-default/mach_fixmap.h
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#ifndef __ASM_MACH_FIXMAP_H
+#define __ASM_MACH_FIXMAP_H
+
+/* used by vmalloc.c, vsyscall.lds.S.
+ *
+ * Leave one empty page between vmalloc'ed areas and
+ * the start of the fixmap.
+ */
+#define __FIXADDR_TOP 0xfffff000
+
+#endif /* __ASM_MACH_FIXMAP_H */
--- /dev/null
+++ linus-2.6/include/asm-i386/mach-xen/mach_fixmap.h
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#ifndef __ASM_MACH_FIXMAP_H
+#define __ASM_MACH_FIXMAP_H
+
+/* used by vmalloc.c, vsyscall.lds.S.
+ *
+ * Leave one empty page between vmalloc'ed areas and
+ * the start of the fixmap.
+ */
+#define __FIXADDR_TOP (HYPERVISOR_VIRT_START - 2 * PAGE_SIZE)
+
+#endif /* __ASM_MACH_FIXMAP_H */

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