This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86: pvclock kvm: align allocation size to page size
to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
x86-pvclock-kvm-align-allocation-size-to-page-size.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From ed55705dd5008b408c48a8459b8b34b01f3de985 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcelo Tosatti <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:58:14 -0300
Subject: x86: pvclock kvm: align allocation size to page size
From: Marcelo Tosatti <[email protected]>
commit ed55705dd5008b408c48a8459b8b34b01f3de985 upstream.
To match whats mapped via vsyscalls to userspace.
Reported-by: Peter Hurley <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c | 11 ++++++-----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
@@ -218,6 +218,9 @@ static void kvm_shutdown(void)
void __init kvmclock_init(void)
{
unsigned long mem;
+ int size;
+
+ size = PAGE_ALIGN(sizeof(struct pvclock_vsyscall_time_info)*NR_CPUS);
if (!kvm_para_available())
return;
@@ -231,16 +234,14 @@ void __init kvmclock_init(void)
printk(KERN_INFO "kvm-clock: Using msrs %x and %x",
msr_kvm_system_time, msr_kvm_wall_clock);
- mem = memblock_alloc(sizeof(struct pvclock_vsyscall_time_info)*NR_CPUS,
- PAGE_SIZE);
+ mem = memblock_alloc(size, PAGE_SIZE);
if (!mem)
return;
hv_clock = __va(mem);
if (kvm_register_clock("boot clock")) {
hv_clock = NULL;
- memblock_free(mem,
- sizeof(struct pvclock_vsyscall_time_info)*NR_CPUS);
+ memblock_free(mem, size);
return;
}
pv_time_ops.sched_clock = kvm_clock_read;
@@ -275,7 +276,7 @@ int __init kvm_setup_vsyscall_timeinfo(v
struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info *vcpu_time;
unsigned int size;
- size = sizeof(struct pvclock_vsyscall_time_info)*NR_CPUS;
+ size = PAGE_ALIGN(sizeof(struct pvclock_vsyscall_time_info)*NR_CPUS);
preempt_disable();
cpu = smp_processor_id();
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.8/x86-pvclock-kvm-align-allocation-size-to-page-size.patch
queue-3.8/x86-kvm-fix-pvclock-vsyscall-fixmap.patch
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