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author | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> | 2008-06-06 05:21:39 -0400 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-06-19 04:08:44 -0400 |
commit | ad524d46f36bbc32033bb72ba42958f12bf49b06 (patch) | |
tree | 6147475fc20e81345dcf04486d8ea422df141951 /include/asm-x86 | |
parent | 9bedbcb207ed9a571b239231d99c8fd4a34ae24d (diff) |
x86: set PAE PHYSICAL_MASK_SHIFT to 44 bits.
When a 64-bit x86 processor runs in 32-bit PAE mode, a pte can
potentially have the same number of physical address bits as the
64-bit host ("Enhanced Legacy PAE Paging"). This means, in theory,
we could have up to 52 bits of physical address in a pte.
The 32-bit kernel uses a 32-bit unsigned long to represent a pfn.
This means that it can only represent physical addresses up to 32+12=44
bits wide. Rather than widening pfns everywhere, just set 2^44 as the
Linux x86_32-PAE architectural limit for physical address size.
This is a bugfix for two cases:
1. running a 32-bit PAE kernel on a machine with
more than 64GB RAM.
2. running a 32-bit PAE Xen guest on a host machine with
more than 64GB RAM
In both cases, a pte could need to have more than 36 bits of physical,
and masking it to 36-bits will cause fairly severe havoc.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-x86')
-rw-r--r-- | include/asm-x86/page_32.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-x86/page_32.h b/include/asm-x86/page_32.h index 424e82f8ae27..ccf0ba3c3aba 100644 --- a/include/asm-x86/page_32.h +++ b/include/asm-x86/page_32.h | |||
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ | |||
14 | #define __PAGE_OFFSET _AC(CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET, UL) | 14 | #define __PAGE_OFFSET _AC(CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET, UL) |
15 | 15 | ||
16 | #ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE | 16 | #ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE |
17 | #define __PHYSICAL_MASK_SHIFT 36 | 17 | /* 44=32+12, the limit we can fit into an unsigned long pfn */ |
18 | #define __PHYSICAL_MASK_SHIFT 44 | ||
18 | #define __VIRTUAL_MASK_SHIFT 32 | 19 | #define __VIRTUAL_MASK_SHIFT 32 |
19 | #define PAGETABLE_LEVELS 3 | 20 | #define PAGETABLE_LEVELS 3 |
20 | 21 | ||