Re: [Xen-devel] upgrade to 2.6.18.8 ?

To:	"Keir Fraser" <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	Re: [Xen-devel] upgrade to 2.6.18.8 ?
From:	"Michael Marineau" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:21:04 -0700
Cc:	Teck Choon Giam <giamteckchoon@xxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxx>, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@xxxxxxxxxx>
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On 10/11/07, Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/10/07 15:44, "Keir Fraser" <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On 10/10/07 21:32, "Michael Marineau" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Wow, this appears (at least in my quick test today) to be the cause of
> >> the oops I keep hitting, reported in the thread titled "Hunting down
> >> an oops in Xen 3.1.0's 2.6.18 kernel". I would *highly* recommend the
> >> attached trivial patch to disable HIGHPTE to avoid this.
> >
> > Yes, I can easily repro this with CONFIG_HIGHPTE and 'vmalloc=700M' on
> > dom0's cmdline (to force most dom0 memory to be highmem). Then I balloon
> > down to 128 megabytes and a crash happens very soon after. We should fix
> > this rather than disable the option.
>
> Ah, it was an easy one. Fixed by linux-2.6.18-xen.hg c/s 252:e797297402.
>
>  -- Keir

Sweet, that was fast :-) I'll give it a test once I see the changeset
show up on xenbits, it doesn't appear to be there yet.

-- 
Michael Marineau
Oregon State University
mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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