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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/page_alloc: Keep away MFN 0 from the buddy allocator



On 09.08.2019 14:14, Julien Grall wrote:
Combining of buddies happens only such that the resulting larger buddy
is still order-aligned. To cross a zone boundary while merging, the
implication is that both the buddy [0, 2^n-1] and the buddy
[2^n, 2^(n+1)] are free.

[2^n, 2^(n+1)-1]

You may want to add that merging across zone boundaries is what we
need to prevent.

Ideally we want to fix the allocator, but for now we can just prevent
adding the MFN 0 in the allocator.

On x86, the MFN 0 is already kept away from the buddy allocator. So the
bug can only happen on Arm platform where the first memory bank is
starting at 0.

As this is a specific to the allocator, the MFN 0 is removed in the common code
to cater all the architectures (current and future).

Reported-by: Jeff Kubascik <jeff.kubascik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

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