Re: [PATCH] arm64: Don't report clear pmds and puds as huge

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On 01/07/15 13:08, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> The current pmd_huge() and pud_huge() functions simply check if the table
> bit is not set and reports the entries as huge in that case.  This is
> counter-intuitive as a clear pmd/pud cannot also be a huge pmd/pud, and
> it is inconsistent with at least arm and x86.
> 
> To prevent others from making the same mistake as me in looking at code
> that calls these functions and to fix an issue with KVM on arm64 that
> causes memory corruption due to incorrect page reference counting
> resulting from this mistake, let's change the behavior.
> 
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx>

FWIW:

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>

	M.
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