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authorIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>2010-02-26 17:16:01 +0000
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2010-02-27 14:41:16 -0800
commit3249b7e1df6380e9d7bb3238f64f445bf614f787 (patch)
tree59672f302da25305202f10c696d19db509e8f8b9 /arch/x86
parent817a824b75b1475f1b067c8cee318c7b4d66fcde (diff)
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x86, vmi: Disable highmem PTE allocation even when CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y
Preventing HIGHPTE allocations under VMI will allow us to remove the kmap_atomic_pte paravirt op. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> LKML-Reference: <1267204562-11844-2-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com> Acked-by: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c23
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c
index d430e4c..58aca86 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
#include <asm/fixmap.h>
#include <asm/apicdef.h>
#include <asm/apic.h>
+#include <asm/pgalloc.h>
#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <asm/timer.h>
#include <asm/vmi_time.h>
@@ -272,19 +273,11 @@ static void *vmi_kmap_atomic_pte(struct page *page, enum km_type type)
void *va = kmap_atomic(page, type);
/*
- * Internally, the VMI ROM must map virtual addresses to physical
- * addresses for processing MMU updates. By the time MMU updates
- * are issued, this information is typically already lost.
- * Fortunately, the VMI provides a cache of mapping slots for active
- * page tables.
- *
- * We use slot zero for the linear mapping of physical memory, and
- * in HIGHPTE kernels, slot 1 and 2 for KM_PTE0 and KM_PTE1.
- *
- * args: SLOT VA COUNT PFN
+ * We disable highmem allocations for page tables so we should never
+ * see any calls to kmap_atomic_pte on a highmem page.
*/
- BUG_ON(type != KM_PTE0 && type != KM_PTE1);
- vmi_ops.set_linear_mapping((type - KM_PTE0)+1, va, 1, page_to_pfn(page));
+
+ BUG_ON(PageHighmem(page));
return va;
}
@@ -640,6 +633,12 @@ static inline int __init activate_vmi(void)
u64 reloc;
const struct vmi_relocation_info *rel = (struct vmi_relocation_info *)&reloc;
+ /*
+ * Prevent page tables from being allocated in highmem, even if
+ * CONFIG_HIGHPTE is enabled.
+ */
+ __userpte_alloc_gfp &= ~__GFP_HIGHMEM;
+
if (call_vrom_func(vmi_rom, vmi_init) != 0) {
printk(KERN_ERR "VMI ROM failed to initialize!");
return 0;
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