Nice implementation. I tested it and it fixes the problem on the affected
system.

Just a minor typo in a comment: "it's duty" should be "its duty".

--Ed


On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 4:44 AM, Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com> wrote:

> On 17/05/16 22:50, Ed Swierk wrote:
> > I added some more instrumentation and discovered that the result of
> > xen_count_remap_pages() (0x85dea) is one less than the actual number
> > of pages remapped by xen_set_identity_and_remap() (0x85deb).
> >
> > The two functions differ in their handling of a xen_e820_map entry
> > whose size is not a multiple of the page size.  The entry starting at
> > 0x68000 has size 0x33400.  xen_count_remap_pages() rounds up when
> > computing the end_pfn (to 0x9c), while xen_set_identity_and_remap()
> > rounds down (to 0x9b).  Thus xen_count_remap_pages() counts the
> > remapped space following the entry as one page smaller than the other
> > function does.
>
> Could you please test the attached patch? It follows your idea of the
> combined function, but is using a function pointer instead of a flag.
> The patch is based on 4.6, but I believe it should just work on 4.4.
>
>
> Juergen
>
>
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