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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-02-20 19:44:21 +0300
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-02-20 19:48:49 +0300
commit7a5714e0186030676d79a7b4b9830c8e45c3b0a1 (patch)
tree7d76720d333893db5b5fa4bb492d69a823ba76db /mm
parent609162850db11dfe3b23f43b36888aa8b3ad7685 (diff)
downloadlinux-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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