From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Xen requires pgds to be page-aligned, so make this a parameter which can be set in the paravirt_ops structure. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Zachary Amsden Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Chris Wright Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c | 1 + arch/i386/mm/init.c | 2 +- include/asm-i386/paravirt.h | 5 ++++- include/asm-i386/pgtable.h | 6 ++++++ 4 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c~xen-paravirt-allow-paravirt-backend-to-select-pgd-allocation-alignment arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c --- a/arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c~xen-paravirt-allow-paravirt-backend-to-select-pgd-allocation-alignment +++ a/arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c @@ -605,6 +605,7 @@ struct paravirt_ops paravirt_ops = { .paravirt_enabled = 0, .kernel_rpl = 0, .shared_kernel_pmd = 1, /* Only used when CONFIG_X86_PAE is set */ + .pgd_alignment = sizeof(pgd_t) * PTRS_PER_PGD, .patch = native_patch, .banner = default_banner, diff -puN arch/i386/mm/init.c~xen-paravirt-allow-paravirt-backend-to-select-pgd-allocation-alignment arch/i386/mm/init.c --- a/arch/i386/mm/init.c~xen-paravirt-allow-paravirt-backend-to-select-pgd-allocation-alignment +++ a/arch/i386/mm/init.c @@ -729,7 +729,7 @@ void __init pgtable_cache_init(void) } pgd_cache = kmem_cache_create("pgd", PTRS_PER_PGD*sizeof(pgd_t), - PTRS_PER_PGD*sizeof(pgd_t), + PGD_ALIGNMENT, 0, NULL, NULL); if (!pgd_cache) panic("pgtable_cache_init(): Cannot create pgd cache"); diff -puN include/asm-i386/paravirt.h~xen-paravirt-allow-paravirt-backend-to-select-pgd-allocation-alignment include/asm-i386/paravirt.h --- a/include/asm-i386/paravirt.h~xen-paravirt-allow-paravirt-backend-to-select-pgd-allocation-alignment +++ a/include/asm-i386/paravirt.h @@ -33,9 +33,12 @@ struct tss_struct; struct mm_struct; struct paravirt_ops { + int paravirt_enabled; unsigned int kernel_rpl; + int shared_kernel_pmd; - int paravirt_enabled; + int pgd_alignment; + const char *name; /* diff -puN include/asm-i386/pgtable.h~xen-paravirt-allow-paravirt-backend-to-select-pgd-allocation-alignment include/asm-i386/pgtable.h --- a/include/asm-i386/pgtable.h~xen-paravirt-allow-paravirt-backend-to-select-pgd-allocation-alignment +++ a/include/asm-i386/pgtable.h @@ -273,6 +273,12 @@ static inline void vmalloc_sync_all(void #define pte_update_defer(mm, addr, ptep) do { } while (0) #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT +#define PGD_ALIGNMENT (paravirt_ops.pgd_alignment) +#else +#define PGD_ALIGNMENT (sizeof(pgd_t) * PTRS_PER_PGD) +#endif + /* * We only update the dirty/accessed state if we set * the dirty bit by hand in the kernel, since the hardware _