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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/xen/setup.c32
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
index 1e85e26..6c9039e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
@@ -37,6 +37,18 @@ extern void xen_syscall32_target(void);
/* Amount of extra memory space we add to the e820 ranges */
phys_addr_t xen_extra_mem_start, xen_extra_mem_size;
+/*
+ * The maximum amount of extra memory compared to the base size. The
+ * main scaling factor is the size of struct page. At extreme ratios
+ * of base:extra, all the base memory can be filled with page
+ * structures for the extra memory, leaving no space for anything
+ * else.
+ *
+ * 10x seems like a reasonable balance between scaling flexibility and
+ * leaving a practically usable system.
+ */
+#define EXTRA_MEM_RATIO (10)
+
static __init void xen_add_extra_mem(unsigned long pages)
{
u64 size = (u64)pages * PAGE_SIZE;
@@ -134,6 +146,7 @@ char * __init xen_memory_setup(void)
int rc;
struct xen_memory_map memmap;
unsigned long extra_pages = 0;
+ unsigned long extra_limit;
int i;
max_pfn = min(MAX_DOMAIN_PAGES, max_pfn);
@@ -196,6 +209,25 @@ char * __init xen_memory_setup(void)
extra_pages += xen_return_unused_memory(xen_start_info->nr_pages, &e820);
+ /*
+ * Clamp the amount of extra memory to a EXTRA_MEM_RATIO
+ * factor the base size. On non-highmem systems, the base
+ * size is the full initial memory allocation; on highmem it
+ * is limited to the max size of lowmem, so that it doesn't
+ * get completely filled.
+ *
+ * In principle there could be a problem in lowmem systems if
+ * the initial memory is also very large with respect to
+ * lowmem, but we won't try to deal with that here.
+ */
+ extra_limit = min(EXTRA_MEM_RATIO * min(max_pfn, PFN_DOWN(MAXMEM)),
+ max_pfn + extra_pages);
+
+ if (extra_limit >= max_pfn)
+ extra_pages = extra_limit - max_pfn;
+ else
+ extra_pages = 0;
+
xen_add_extra_mem(extra_pages);
return "Xen";
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