[Xen-devel] [PATCH V2 2/3] xen: eliminate scalability issues from initrd handling

[Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

Size restrictions native kernels wouldn't have resulted from the initrd
getting mapped into the initial mapping. The kernel doesn't really need
the initrd to be mapped, so use infrastructure available in Xen to avoid
the mapping and hence the restriction.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 11 +++++++++--
 arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S  |  1 +
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
index c0cb11f..8fd075f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
@@ -1519,6 +1519,7 @@ static void __init xen_pvh_early_guest_init(void)
 asmlinkage __visible void __init xen_start_kernel(void)
 {
        struct physdev_set_iopl set_iopl;
+       unsigned long initrd_start = 0;
        int rc;
 
        if (!xen_start_info)
@@ -1667,10 +1668,16 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init xen_start_kernel(void)
        new_cpu_data.x86_capability[0] = cpuid_edx(1);
 #endif
 
+       if (xen_start_info->mod_start)
+               initrd_start = __pa(xen_start_info->mod_start);
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
+       if (xen_start_info->flags & SIF_MOD_START_PFN)
+               initrd_start = PFN_PHYS(xen_start_info->mod_start);
+#endif
+
        /* Poke various useful things into boot_params */
        boot_params.hdr.type_of_loader = (9 << 4) | 0;
-       boot_params.hdr.ramdisk_image = xen_start_info->mod_start
-               ? __pa(xen_start_info->mod_start) : 0;
+       boot_params.hdr.ramdisk_image = initrd_start;
        boot_params.hdr.ramdisk_size = xen_start_info->mod_len;
        boot_params.hdr.cmd_line_ptr = __pa(xen_start_info->cmd_line);
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S b/arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S
index 485b695..46408e5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ NEXT_HYPERCALL(arch_6)
        ELFNOTE(Xen, XEN_ELFNOTE_L1_MFN_VALID,
                .quad _PAGE_PRESENT; .quad _PAGE_PRESENT)
        ELFNOTE(Xen, XEN_ELFNOTE_SUSPEND_CANCEL, .long 1)
+       ELFNOTE(Xen, XEN_ELFNOTE_MOD_START_PFN,  .long 1)
        ELFNOTE(Xen, XEN_ELFNOTE_HV_START_LOW,   _ASM_PTR 
__HYPERVISOR_VIRT_START)
        ELFNOTE(Xen, XEN_ELFNOTE_PADDR_OFFSET,   _ASM_PTR 0)
 
-- 
1.8.4.5


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