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Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk committed 5bc6f9888db
xen/p2m: Reserve 8MB of _brk space for P2M leafs when populating back. When we release pages back during bootup: Freeing 9d-100 pfn range: 99 pages freed Freeing 9cf36-9d0d2 pfn range: 412 pages freed Freeing 9f6bd-9f6bf pfn range: 2 pages freed Freeing 9f714-9f7bf pfn range: 171 pages freed Freeing 9f7e0-9f7ff pfn range: 31 pages freed Freeing 9f800-100000 pfn range: 395264 pages freed Released 395979 pages of unused memory We then try to populate those pages back. In the P2M tree however the space for those leafs must be reserved - as such we use extend_brk. We reserve 8MB of _brk space, which means we can fit over 1048576 PFNs - which is more than we should ever need. Without this, on certain compilation of the kernel we would hit: (XEN) domain_crash_sync called from entry.S (XEN) CPU: 0 (XEN) RIP: e033:[<ffffffff818aad3b>] (XEN) RFLAGS: 0000000000000206 EM: 1 CONTEXT: pv guest (XEN) rax: ffffffff81a7c000 rbx: 000000000000003d rcx: 0000000000001000 (XEN) rdx: ffffffff81a7b000 rsi: 0000000000001000 rdi: 0000000000001000 (XEN) rbp: ffffffff81801cd8 rsp: ffffffff81801c98 r8: 0000000000100000 (XEN) r9: ffffffff81a7a000 r10: 0000000000000001 r11: 0000000000000003 (XEN) r12: 0000000000000004 r13: 0000000000000004 r14: 000000000000003d (XEN) r15: 00000000000001e8 cr0: 000000008005003b cr4: 00000000000006f0 (XEN) cr3: 0000000125803000 cr2: 0000000000000000 (XEN) ds: 0000 es: 0000 fs: 0000 gs: 0000 ss: e02b cs: e033 (XEN) Guest stack trace from rsp=ffffffff81801c98: .. which is extend_brk hitting a BUG_ON. Interestingly enough, most of the time we are not going to hit this b/c the _brk space is quite large (v3.5): ffffffff81a25000 B __brk_base ffffffff81e43000 B __brk_limit = ~4MB. vs earlier kernels (with this back-ported), the space is smaller: ffffffff81a25000 B __brk_base ffffffff81a7b000 B __brk_limit = 344 kBytes. where we would certainly hit this and hit extend_brk. Note that git commit c3d93f880197953f86ab90d9da4744e926b38e33 (xen: populate correct number of pages when across mem boundary (v2)) exposed this bug). [v1: Made it 8MB of _brk space instead of 4MB per Jan's suggestion] CC: stable@vger.kernel.org #only for 3.5 Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>