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    • Juergen Gross's avatar
      x86/mm: Make set_pmd_at() paravirt aware · 20e55bc1
      Juergen Gross authored
      set_pmd_at() calls native_set_pmd() unconditionally on x86. This was
      fine as long as only huge page entries were written via set_pmd_at(),
      as Xen pv guests don't support those.
      
      Commit 2c91bd4a ("mm: speed up mremap by 20x on large regions")
      introduced a usage of set_pmd_at() possible on pv guests, leading to
      failures like:
      
      BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff888023e26778
      #PF error: [PROT] [WRITE]
      RIP: e030:move_page_tables+0x7c1/0xae0
      move_vma.isra.3+0xd1/0x2d0
      __se_sys_mremap+0x3c6/0x5b0
       do_syscall_64+0x49/0x100
      entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
      
      Make set_pmd_at() paravirt aware by just letting it use set_pmd().
      
      Fixes: 2c91bd4a
      
       ("mm: speed up mremap by 20x on large regions")
      Reported-by: default avatarSander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
      Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
      Cc: sstabellini@kernel.org
      Cc: hpa@zytor.com
      Cc: bp@alien8.de
      Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
      Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190210074056.11842-1-jgross@suse.com
      20e55bc1