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authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>2008-06-06 10:21:39 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-06-19 10:08:44 +0200
commitad524d46f36bbc32033bb72ba42958f12bf49b06 (patch)
tree6147475fc20e81345dcf04486d8ea422df141951 /include/asm-x86
parent9bedbcb207ed9a571b239231d99c8fd4a34ae24d (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.h3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-x86/page_32.h b/include/asm-x86/page_32.h
index 424e82f8ae2..ccf0ba3c3ab 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86/page_32.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/page_32.h
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@
#define __PAGE_OFFSET _AC(CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET, UL)
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE
-#define __PHYSICAL_MASK_SHIFT 36
+/* 44=32+12, the limit we can fit into an unsigned long pfn */
+#define __PHYSICAL_MASK_SHIFT 44
#define __VIRTUAL_MASK_SHIFT 32
#define PAGETABLE_LEVELS 3