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Commit 8f51e392 authored by Nicholas Piggin's avatar Nicholas Piggin Committed by Michael Ellerman
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powerpc/64s/radix: Fix memory hotplug section page table creation

create_physical_mapping expects physical addresses, but creating and
splitting these mappings after boot is supplying virtual (effective)
addresses. This can be irritated by booting with mem= to limit memory
then probing an unused physical memory range:

  echo <addr> > /sys/devices/system/memory/probe

This mostly works by accident, firstly because __va(__va(x)) == __va(x)
so the virtual address does not get corrupted. Secondly because pfn_pte
masks out the upper bits of the pfn beyond the physical address limit,
so a pfn constructed with a 0xc000000000000000 virtual linear address
will be masked back to the correct physical address in the pte.

Fixes: 6cc27341

 ("powerpc/mm: add radix__create_section_mapping()")
Signed-off-by: default avatarNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190724084638.24982-1-npiggin@gmail.com
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