References: bnc#491081 # HG changeset patch # User Keir Fraser # Date 1251097328 -3600 # Node ID 7e194320394244bc5028881b498d2e01574086cd # Parent 9189afa1f1e6939fcda5525e225843cfd2325c42 x86: run timers when populating Dom0's P2M table When booting Dom0 with huge amounts of memory, and/or memory accesses being sufficiently slow (due to NUMA effects), and the ACPI PM timer or a high frequency HPET being used, the time it takes to populate the M2P table may significantly exceed the overflow time of the platform timer, screwing up time management to the point where Dom0 boot fails. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Index: xen-3.4.1-testing/xen/arch/x86/domain_build.c =================================================================== --- xen-3.4.1-testing.orig/xen/arch/x86/domain_build.c +++ xen-3.4.1-testing/xen/arch/x86/domain_build.c @@ -877,6 +877,8 @@ int __init construct_dom0( else ((unsigned int *)vphysmap_start)[pfn] = mfn; set_gpfn_from_mfn(mfn, pfn); + if (!(pfn & 0xfffff)) + process_pending_timers(); } si->first_p2m_pfn = pfn; si->nr_p2m_frames = d->tot_pages - count; @@ -895,6 +897,8 @@ int __init construct_dom0( #ifndef NDEBUG ++alloc_epfn; #endif + if (!(pfn & 0xfffff)) + process_pending_timers(); } } BUG_ON(pfn != d->tot_pages); @@ -915,6 +919,8 @@ int __init construct_dom0( set_gpfn_from_mfn(mfn, pfn); #undef pfn page++; pfn++; + if (!(pfn & 0xfffff)) + process_pending_timers(); } }