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SubjectRe: [PATCH v8 1/9] KVM: arm/arm64: Ensure only THP is candidate for adjustment
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On 01/10/18 16:54, Punit Agrawal wrote:
> PageTransCompoundMap() returns true for hugetlbfs and THP
> hugepages. This behaviour incorrectly leads to stage 2 faults for
> unsupported hugepage sizes (e.g., 64K hugepage with 4K pages) to be
> treated as THP faults.
>
> Tighten the check to filter out hugetlbfs pages. This also leads to
> consistently mapping all unsupported hugepage sizes as PTE level
> entries at stage 2.
>
> Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Suzuki Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
> Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@arm.com>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.13+

FWIW, I've cherry-picked that single patch from the series and queued it
for 4.20.

Thanks,

M.
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