[Xen-devel] [patch 7/8] Add a bootparameter to reserve high linear address space.

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Add a bootparameter to reserve high linear address space for hypervisors.
This is necessary to allow dynamically loaded hypervisor modules, which
might not happen until userspace is already running, and also provides a
useful tool to benchmark the performance impact of reduced lowmem address
space.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    5 +++++
 arch/i386/kernel/setup.c            |   19 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)

===================================================================
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1357,6 +1357,11 @@ running once the system is up.
 
        reserve=        [KNL,BUGS] Force the kernel to ignore some iomem area
 
+       reservetop=     [IA-32]
+                       Format: nn[KMG]
+                       Reserves a hole at the top of the kernel virtual
+                       address space.
+
        resume=         [SWSUSP]
                        Specify the partition device for software suspend
 
===================================================================
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
@@ -160,6 +160,12 @@ static char command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SI
 static char command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE];
 
 unsigned char __initdata boot_params[PARAM_SIZE];
+
+static int __init setup_reservetop(char *s)
+{
+       return 1;
+}
+__setup("reservetop", setup_reservetop);
 
 static struct resource data_resource = {
        .name   = "Kernel data",
@@ -917,6 +923,19 @@ static void __init parse_cmdline_early (
                else if (!memcmp(from, "vmalloc=", 8))
                        __VMALLOC_RESERVE = memparse(from+8, &from);
 
+               /*
+                * reservetop=size reserves a hole at the top of the kernel
+                * address space which a hypervisor can load into later.
+                * Needed for dynamically loaded hypervisors, so relocating
+                * the fixmap can be done before paging initialization.
+                * This hole must be a multiple of 4M.
+                */
+               else if (!memcmp(from, "reservetop=", 11)) {
+                       unsigned long reserve = memparse(from+11, &from);
+                       reserve &= ~0x3fffff;
+                       reserve_top_address(reserve);
+               }
+
        next_char:
                c = *(from++);
                if (!c)

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