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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-02-20 19:44:21 +0300 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-02-20 19:48:49 +0300 |
commit | 7a5714e0186030676d79a7b4b9830c8e45c3b0a1 (patch) | |
tree | 7d76720d333893db5b5fa4bb492d69a823ba76db /mm | |
parent | 609162850db11dfe3b23f43b36888aa8b3ad7685 (diff) | |
download | linux-7a5714e0186030676d79a7b4b9830c8e45c3b0a1.tar.xz |
x86, pat: add large-PAT check to split_large_page()
Impact: future-proof the split_large_page() function
Linus noticed that split_large_page() is not safe wrt. the
PAT bit: it is bit 12 on the 1GB and 2MB page table level
(_PAGE_BIT_PAT_LARGE), and it is bit 7 on the 4K page
table level (_PAGE_BIT_PAT).
Currently it is not a problem because we never set
_PAGE_BIT_PAT_LARGE on any of the large-page mappings - but
should this happen in the future the split_large_page() would
silently lift bit 12 into the lowlevel 4K pte and would start
corrupting the physical page frame offset. Not fun.
So add a debug warning, to make sure if something ever sets
the PAT bit then this function gets updated too.
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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