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diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
index 9efca750405d..740517be4da5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
@@ -424,6 +424,33 @@ char * __init xen_memory_setup(void)
e820_add_region(ISA_START_ADDRESS, ISA_END_ADDRESS - ISA_START_ADDRESS,
E820_RESERVED);
+ /*
+ * Reserve Xen bits:
+ * - mfn_list
+ * - xen_start_info
+ * See comment above "struct start_info" in <xen/interface/xen.h>
+ * We tried to make the the memblock_reserve more selective so
+ * that it would be clear what region is reserved. Sadly we ran
+ * in the problem wherein on a 64-bit hypervisor with a 32-bit
+ * initial domain, the pt_base has the cr3 value which is not
+ * neccessarily where the pagetable starts! As Jan put it: "
+ * Actually, the adjustment turns out to be correct: The page
+ * tables for a 32-on-64 dom0 get allocated in the order "first L1",
+ * "first L2", "first L3", so the offset to the page table base is
+ * indeed 2. When reading xen/include/public/xen.h's comment
+ * very strictly, this is not a violation (since there nothing is said
+ * that the first thing in the page table space is pointed to by
+ * pt_base; I admit that this seems to be implied though, namely
+ * do I think that it is implied that the page table space is the
+ * range [pt_base, pt_base + nt_pt_frames), whereas that
+ * range here indeed is [pt_base - 2, pt_base - 2 + nt_pt_frames),
+ * which - without a priori knowledge - the kernel would have
+ * difficulty to figure out)." - so lets just fall back to the
+ * easy way and reserve the whole region.
+ */
+ memblock_reserve(__pa(xen_start_info->mfn_list),
+ xen_start_info->pt_base - xen_start_info->mfn_list);
+
sanitize_e820_map(e820.map, ARRAY_SIZE(e820.map), &e820.nr_map);
return "Xen";