From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
"dan.magenheimer@oracle.com" <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>,
Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen: handle highmem pages correctly when shrinking a domain
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:56:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090123175614.GA26627@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <70c0102ea4c18ecab426.1232727981@localhost.localdomain>
* Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> wrote:
> This commit causes a crash if the page being released is a highmem
> page.
>
> commit 1058a75f07b9bb8323fb5197be5526220f8b75cf
> Author: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
> 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@citrix.com>
> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> Cc: dan.magenheimer@oracle.com <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
> Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
> Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>
> ---
> drivers/xen/balloon.c | 11 +++++++----
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Applied to tip/x86/urgent, thanks Ian!
Ingo
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