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Subject[PATCH 28/46] x86, mm: Add pointer about Xen mmu requirement for alloc_low_pages
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From: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>

Add link to commit 279b706 for more information

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
---
arch/x86/mm/init.c | 5 +++++
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init.c b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
index f5e0120..a7939ed 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
@@ -25,6 +25,11 @@ unsigned long __meminitdata pgt_buf_top;

static unsigned long min_pfn_mapped;

+/*
+ * Pages returned are already directly mapped.
+ *
+ * Changing that is likely to break Xen, see commit 279b706 for detail info.
+ */
__ref void *alloc_low_pages(unsigned int num)
{
unsigned long pfn;
--
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