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On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 13:37 -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 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.

I can confirm that it is Linux which is allocating it. The call path:
        # xm create -c debian-x86_32p-1
        Using config file "/etc/xen/debian-x86_32p-1".
        Started domain debian-1
        xen_alloc_pt_init PFN f0
        Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.25-rc2 #68
         [<c02ecb6b>] xen_alloc_pt_init+0x4b/0x60
         [<c02f5e2b>] one_page_table_init+0x8b/0xf0
         [<c02f63df>] paging_init+0x3bf/0x520
         [<c02ee444>] setup_arch+0x2a4/0x410
         [<c02e9a64>] start_kernel+0x64/0x380
         [<c02efd7f>] cpu_detect+0x6f/0xf0
         [<c02ed1a1>] xen_start_kernel+0x2f1/0x310
         =======================
        Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 262144) 0 entries of 256 used
        Zone PFN ranges:
          DMA             0 ->     4096

Ian.
> 
>     J
> 
-- 
Ian Campbell

Why do they call a fast a fast, when it goes so slow?

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