[PATCH] powerepc/book3s64/hash: Align start/end address correctly with bolt mapping

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Thu Sep 17 21:27:14 AEST 2020


On Mon, 7 Sep 2020 12:55:39 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> This ensures we don't do a partial mapping of memory. With nvdimm, when
> creating namespaces with size not aligned to 16MB, the kernel ends up partially
> mapping the pages. This can result in kernel adding multiple hash page table
> entries for the same range. A new namespace will result in
> create_section_mapping() with start and end overlapping an already existing
> bolted hash page table entry.
> 
> [...]

Applied to powerpc/next.

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      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/79b123cdf9cf0d4a1620baa8c611962626323a08

cheers


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