[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "x86/xen: do not identity map UNUSABLE regions in the machine" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    x86/xen: do not identity map UNUSABLE regions in the machine

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 74ece1e1010733ae6f248f64bcb1938b63fd3cba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel at citrix.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 15:42:55 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] x86/xen: do not identity map UNUSABLE regions in the machine
 E820

commit 3bc38cbceb85881a8eb789ee1aa56678038b1909 upstream.

If there are UNUSABLE regions in the machine memory map, dom0 will
attempt to map them 1:1 which is not permitted by Xen and the kernel
will crash.

There isn't anything interesting in the UNUSABLE region that the dom0
kernel needs access to so we can avoid making the 1:1 mapping and
treat it as RAM.

We only do this for dom0, as that is where tboot case shows up.
A PV domU could have an UNUSABLE region in its pseudo-physical map
and would need to be handled in another patch.

This fixes a boot failure on hosts with tboot.

tboot marks a region in the e820 map as unusable and the dom0 kernel
would attempt to map this region and Xen does not permit unusable
regions to be mapped by guests.

  (XEN)  0000000000000000 - 0000000000060000 (usable)
  (XEN)  0000000000060000 - 0000000000068000 (reserved)
  (XEN)  0000000000068000 - 000000000009e000 (usable)
  (XEN)  0000000000100000 - 0000000000800000 (usable)
  (XEN)  0000000000800000 - 0000000000972000 (unusable)

tboot marked this region as unusable.

  (XEN)  0000000000972000 - 00000000cf200000 (usable)
  (XEN)  00000000cf200000 - 00000000cf38f000 (reserved)
  (XEN)  00000000cf38f000 - 00000000cf3ce000 (ACPI data)
  (XEN)  00000000cf3ce000 - 00000000d0000000 (reserved)
  (XEN)  00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
  (XEN)  00000000fe000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
  (XEN)  0000000100000000 - 0000000630000000 (usable)

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel at citrix.com>
[v1: Altered the patch and description with domU's with UNUSABLE regions]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/xen/setup.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
index c207fdb..1ba7725 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
@@ -318,6 +318,17 @@ static void xen_align_and_add_e820_region(u64 start, u64 size, int type)
 	e820_add_region(start, end - start, type);
 }

+void xen_ignore_unusable(struct e820entry *list, size_t map_size)
+{
+	struct e820entry *entry;
+	unsigned int i;
+
+	for (i = 0, entry = list; i < map_size; i++, entry++) {
+		if (entry->type == E820_UNUSABLE)
+			entry->type = E820_RAM;
+	}
+}
+
 /**
  * machine_specific_memory_setup - Hook for machine specific memory setup.
  **/
@@ -358,6 +369,17 @@ char * __init xen_memory_setup(void)
 	}
 	BUG_ON(rc);

+	/*
+	 * Xen won't allow a 1:1 mapping to be created to UNUSABLE
+	 * regions, so if we're using the machine memory map leave the
+	 * region as RAM as it is in the pseudo-physical map.
+	 *
+	 * UNUSABLE regions in domUs are not handled and will need
+	 * a patch in the future.
+	 */
+	if (xen_initial_domain())
+		xen_ignore_unusable(map, memmap.nr_entries);
+
 	/* Make sure the Xen-supplied memory map is well-ordered. */
 	sanitize_e820_map(map, memmap.nr_entries, &memmap.nr_entries);

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