tree 5cdf26c4043e9345cb132798a8535ccb9c20aa9a
parent ad2cde16a21985cdc4302e4a4b0fc373d666fdf7
author Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> 1223413126 -0700
committer Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 1223659761 +0200

x86, cpa: make the kernel physical mapping initialization a two pass sequence, fix

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

> I'd noticed that current tip/master hasn't been booting under Xen, and I
> just got around to bisecting it down to this change.
>
> commit 065ae73c5462d42e9761afb76f2b52965ff45bd6
> Author: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
>
>    x86, cpa: make the kernel physical mapping initialization a two pass sequence
>
> This patch is causing Xen to fail various pagetable updates because it
> ends up remapping pagetables to RW, which Xen explicitly prohibits (as
> that would allow guests to make arbitrary changes to pagetables, rather
> than have them mediated by the hypervisor).

Instead of making init a two pass sequence, to satisfy the Intel's TLB
Application note (developer.intel.com/design/processor/applnots/317080.pdf
Section 6 page 26), we preserve the original page permissions
when fragmenting the large mappings and don't touch the existing memory
mapping (which satisfies Xen's requirements).

Only open issue is: on a native linux kernel, we will go back to mapping
the first 0-1GB kernel identity mapping as executable (because of the
static mapping setup in head_64.S). We can fix this in a different
patch if needed.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>