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x86, 64-bit: adjust mapping of physical pagetables to work with Xen
This makes a few of changes to the construction of the initial pagetables to work better with paravirt_ops/Xen. The main areas are: 1. Support non-PSE mapping of memory, since Xen doesn't currently allow 2M pages to be mapped in guests. 2. Make sure that the ioremap alias of all pages are dropped before attaching the new page to the pagetable. This avoids having writable aliases of pagetable pages. 3. Preserve existing pagetable entries, rather than overwriting. Its possible that a fair amount of pagetable has already been constructed, so reuse what's already in place rather than ignoring and overwriting it. The algorithm relies on the invariant that any page which is part of the kernel pagetable is itself mapped in the linear memory area. This way, it can avoid using ioremap on a pagetable page. The invariant holds because it maps memory from low to high addresses, and also allocates memory from low to high. Each allocated page can map at least 2M of address space, so the mapped area will always progress much faster than the allocated area. It relies on the early boot code mapping enough pages to get started. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com> Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com> Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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