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authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>2007-10-16 23:55:03 -0400
committerTim Shimmin <tes@chook.melbourne.sgi.com>2007-10-17 00:14:35 -0400
commit7f015072348a14f16d548be557ee58c5c55df0aa (patch)
tree957c0ddf2bddd976269f707ef8043e588baf1c5f
parent6572bc28de150aaa6ca182eaf3e60c199ba48630 (diff)
[XFS] eagerly remove vmap mappings to avoid upsetting Xen
XFS leaves stray mappings around when it vmaps memory to make it virtually contigious. This upsets Xen if one of those pages is being recycled into a pagetable, since it finds an extra writable mapping of the page. This patch solves the problem in a brute force way, by making XFS always eagerly unmap its mappings. SGI-PV: 971902 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29886a Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c13
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c
index 8d9298c99763..d5b2d2bbf5ff 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c
@@ -187,6 +187,19 @@ free_address(
187{ 187{
188 a_list_t *aentry; 188 a_list_t *aentry;
189 189
190#ifdef CONFIG_XEN
191 /*
192 * Xen needs to be able to make sure it can get an exclusive
193 * RO mapping of pages it wants to turn into a pagetable. If
194 * a newly allocated page is also still being vmap()ed by xfs,
195 * it will cause pagetable construction to fail. This is a
196 * quick workaround to always eagerly unmap pages so that Xen
197 * is happy.
198 */
199 vunmap(addr);
200 return;
201#endif
202
190 aentry = kmalloc(sizeof(a_list_t), GFP_NOWAIT); 203 aentry = kmalloc(sizeof(a_list_t), GFP_NOWAIT);
191 if (likely(aentry)) { 204 if (likely(aentry)) {
192 spin_lock(&as_lock); 205 spin_lock(&as_lock);