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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3] xen: Fix oops when mapping/unmapping addr ab

To: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3] xen: Fix oops when mapping/unmapping addr above 1Gb
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:02:34 -0700
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Mark McLoughlin wrote:
Hi,
        In Fedora rawhide we're currently seeing oopses whenever
a processes dlopen()s a library which prelink() has previously
relocated above 1Gb. Some more details at:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/436453

        The issue seems to be that during xen_pgd_pin(), we only
pin PTE pages, but xen's release_pmd() tries to unpin PMD pages
too.

        The following series of patches is against the latest
x86 tree.

Hm, OK. I'm trying to work out what happened here. I guess its a latent bug which is only visible now that its possible to incrementally free pmds.

A side note is that I'm planning on pinning pmds in the future, so that we can get away replace the full pgd page per mm with a pgd page per cpu.

   J

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