From: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
The physical memory fixmapped for the pvclock clock_gettime vsyscall
was allocated, and thus is not a kernel symbol. __pa() is the proper
method to use in this case.
Fixes the crash below when booting a next-20130204+ smp guest on a
3.8-rc5+ KVM host.
[ 0.666410] udevd[97]: starting version 175
[ 0.674043] udevd[97]: udevd:[97]: segfault at ffffffffff5fd020
ip 00007fff069e277f sp 00007fff068c9ef8 error d
Acked-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@xxxxxxxxxx>
(cherry picked from commit 3d2a80a230250c2534ce5b17503670adaf1d7fff)
---
arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c b/arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c
index 85c3959..2cb9470 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ int __init pvclock_init_vsyscall(struct pvclock_vsyscall_time_info *i,
for (idx = 0; idx <= (PVCLOCK_FIXMAP_END-PVCLOCK_FIXMAP_BEGIN); idx++) {
__set_fixmap(PVCLOCK_FIXMAP_BEGIN + idx,
- __pa_symbol(i) + (idx*PAGE_SIZE),
+ __pa(i) + (idx*PAGE_SIZE),
PAGE_KERNEL_VVAR);
}
--
1.7.10.4
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