lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2017]   [Oct]   [26]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: ce56a86e2a ("x86/mm: Limit mmap() of /dev/mem to valid physical addresses"): kernel BUG at arch/x86/mm/physaddr.c:79!

* Craig Bergstrom <craigb@google.com> wrote:

> Sander, thanks for the details, they've been very useful.
>
> I suspect that your host system's mem=2048M parameter is causing the
> problem. Any chance you can confirm by removing the parameter and
> running the guest code path?
>
> More specifically, since you're telling the kernel that it's high
> memory address is at 2048M and your device is at 0xfe1fe000 (~4G), the
> new mmap() limits are preventing you from mapping addresses that are
> explicitly disallowed by the parameter.

Well, 'mem=2048M' shouldn't really limit device memory, it's supposed to limit
(trim) 'RAM' and not much else.

Thanks,

Ingo

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2017-10-26 21:03    [W:0.998 / U:0.996 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site