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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk on 19 Mar 2010 16:40
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 07:34:49PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 19:04 +0000, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > On 03/19/2010 11:28 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > >> Subject: x86: do not free zero sized per cpu areas
> > >>
> > >> This avoids an infinite loop in free_early_partial().
> > >
> > > The patch fixed PV guests booting on Xen. I've added my
> > > Tested-by .. Please merge it in the release.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >>
> > >> Add a warning to free_early_partial to catch future problems.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell(a)citrix.com>
> > >
> > > Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk(a)oracle.com>
> >
> > please check update version...
> >
> > please check if this patch help...
> >
> > http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/83832/
>
> Sorry Konrad, looks like I directed you to an older version of the patch
> by mistake.

Np. I tested this one and it worked succesfully.

Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk(a)oracle.com>

index ef6370b..89a3205 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
@@ -140,7 +140,8 @@ static void __init pcpu_fc_free(void *ptr, size_t
size)
#ifdef CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM
u64 start = __pa(ptr);
u64 end = start + size;
- free_early_partial(start, end);
+ if (start < end)
+ free_early_partial(start, end);
#else
free_bootmem(__pa(ptr), size);
#endif
diff --git a/kernel/early_res.c b/kernel/early_res.c
index 3cb2c66..f3a861b 100644
--- a/kernel/early_res.c
+++ b/kernel/early_res.c
@@ -333,6 +333,11 @@ void __init free_early_partial(u64 start, u64 end)
struct early_res *r;
int i;

+ if (WARN_ONCE(start >= end,
+ "free_early_partial got wrong start/end
%#llx/%#llx\n",
+ start, end))
+ return;
+
try_next:
i = find_overlapped_early(start, end);
if (i >= max_early_res)

>
> Ian.
>
>
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