Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932942AbYBUVk1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:40:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753863AbYBUVkQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:40:16 -0500 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:45822 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750897AbYBUVkO (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:40:14 -0500 Message-ID: <47BDEF36.8000903@goop.org> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:37:58 -0800 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H. Peter Anvin" CC: Ian Campbell , Joel Becker , Jody Belka , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "Eric W. Biederman" , Andi Kleen , Mika Penttila Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc1 xen pvops regression References: <20080212235404.GY7980@pimb.org> <47B2DBA5.6030001@goop.org> <20080214022744.GA4160@mail.oracle.com> <47B3F2DC.8080707@goop.org> <20080215202336.GE26034@mail.oracle.com> <1203274161.27987.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080218104025.GA15899@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> <1203458366.26910.15.camel@cthulhu.hellion.org.uk> <47BBDA20.8030105@zytor.com> <1203497511.26910.39.camel@cthulhu.hellion.org.uk> <47BCA275.7000504@goop.org> <1203546597.26910.74.camel@cthulhu.hellion.org.uk> <47BDEA11.6010302@goop.org> <47BDEB57.5040203@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <47BDEB57.5040203@zytor.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 866 Lines: 21 H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Still curious about why a pagetable page is ending up in that range >> though. Seems like it shouldn't be possible, since we shouldn't be >> allowed to allocate from those pages, at least until the DMI probe >> has happened... Unless the early allocator is only excluded from >> e820 reserved pages, which would cause a problem on systems which >> don't reserve the DMI space... HPA? >> > > I thought the problem was a Xen-provided pagetable from before Linux > started? Hm, I don't think so. The domain-builder pagetable is put after the kernel, so it shouldn't be under 1M. J -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/