[Xen-ia64-devel] Bug with dom0 large enough memmap trick

[Tristan Gingold <Tristan.Gingold@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

this issue will be moot with P2M/VP but it is here.

The last granule is computed from max_page:

   printf("find_memory: efi_memmap_walk returns max_page=%lx\n",max_page);
    /* this is a bad hack.  see dom_fw.c creation of EFI map for dom0 */
    max_page = (GRANULEROUNDDOWN(max_page << PAGE_SHIFT)
        - IA64_GRANULE_SIZE) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
    printf("find_memory: last granule reserved for dom0; xen max_page=%lx\n",
        max_page);

But we don't check there is no reserved data/code within this page.  Because 
this memory
is given to dom0 as conventionnal memory
  /* hack */ 
MAKE_MD(EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY,EFI_MEMORY_WB,last_start,last_end,1);
this hack may erase PAL/SAL/EFI code or data.

Tristan.



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