Revert "xen/x86: Workaround 64-bit hypervisor and 32-bit initial domain." and...
Revert "xen/x86: Workaround 64-bit hypervisor and 32-bit initial domain." and "xen/x86: Use memblock_reserve for sensitive areas." This reverts commit 806c312e and commit 59b29440. And also documents setup.c and why we want to do it that way, which is that we tried to make the the memblock_reserve more selective so that it would be clear what region is reserved. Sadly we ran in the problem wherein on a 64-bit hypervisor with a 32-bit initial domain, the pt_base has the cr3 value which is not neccessarily where the pagetable starts! As Jan put it: " Actually, the adjustment turns out to be correct: The page tables for a 32-on-64 dom0 get allocated in the order "first L1", "first L2", "first L3", so the offset to the page table base is indeed 2. When reading xen/include/public/xen.h's comment very strictly, this is not a violation (since there nothing is said that the first thing in the page table space is pointed to by pt_base; I admit that this seems to be implied though, namely do I think that it is implied that the page table space is the range [pt_base, pt_base + nt_pt_frames), whereas that range here indeed is [pt_base - 2, pt_base - 2 + nt_pt_frames), which - without a priori knowledge - the kernel would have difficulty to figure out)." - so lets just fall back to the easy way and reserve the whole region. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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