[PATCH] xen: handle highmem pages correctly when shrinking a domain

From: Ian Campbell
Date: Fri Jan 23 2009 - 11:26:38 EST


This commit causes a crash if the page being released is a highmem
page.

commit 1058a75f07b9bb8323fb5197be5526220f8b75cf
Author: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Jan 22 14:36:08 2009 -0800

xen: actually release memory when shrinking domain

If a page is highmem then there is no need to unmap it.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Cc: dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/xen/balloon.c | 11 +++++++----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff -r 7f26a03c3e02 -r 70c0102ea4c1 drivers/xen/balloon.c
--- a/drivers/xen/balloon.c Fri Jan 23 14:14:59 2009 +0000
+++ b/drivers/xen/balloon.c Fri Jan 23 16:24:09 2009 +0000
@@ -292,10 +292,13 @@

scrub_page(page);

- ret = HYPERVISOR_update_va_mapping(
- (unsigned long)__va(pfn << PAGE_SHIFT),
- __pte_ma(0), 0);
- BUG_ON(ret);
+ if (!PageHighMem(page)) {
+ ret = HYPERVISOR_update_va_mapping(
+ (unsigned long)__va(pfn << PAGE_SHIFT),
+ __pte_ma(0), 0);
+ BUG_ON(ret);
+ }
+
}

/* Ensure that ballooned highmem pages don't have kmaps. */
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