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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: Fix pud_alloc_track()
On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 19:48:14 +0300 Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 09:44:46AM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
> >
> > The pud_alloc_track() needs to do different checks based on whether
> > __ARCH_HAS_5LEVEL_HACK is defined, like it already does in
> > pud_alloc(). Otherwise it causes boot failures on PowerPC.
> >
> > Provide the correct implementations for both possible settings of
> > __ARCH_HAS_5LEVEL_HACK to fix the boot problems.
>
> There is a patch in mmotm [1] that completely removes
> __ARCH_HAS_5LEVEL_HACK which is a part of the series [2] that updates
> p4d folding accross architectures. This should fix boot on PowerPC and
> the addition of pXd_alloc_track() for __ARCH_HAS_5LEVEL_HACK wouldn't be
> necessary.
>
>
> [1] https://github.com/hnaz/linux-mm/commit/cfae68792af3731ac902ea6ba5ed8df5a0f6bd2f
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/kvmarm/20200414153455.21744-1-rppt@kernel.org/

That patchset is stacked up behind many other patches, including all
the powerpc stuff in linux-next :(

As it's a big bug fix, I'll pull those patches forward, hopefully send it
all Linuswards later today...

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