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    x86: set PAE PHYSICAL_MASK_SHIFT to 44 bits. · ad524d46
    Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
    
    
    When a 64-bit x86 processor runs in 32-bit PAE mode, a pte can
    potentially have the same number of physical address bits as the
    64-bit host ("Enhanced Legacy PAE Paging").  This means, in theory,
    we could have up to 52 bits of physical address in a pte.
    
    The 32-bit kernel uses a 32-bit unsigned long to represent a pfn.
    This means that it can only represent physical addresses up to 32+12=44
    bits wide.  Rather than widening pfns everywhere, just set 2^44 as the
    Linux x86_32-PAE architectural limit for physical address size.
    
    This is a bugfix for two cases:
    1. running a 32-bit PAE kernel on a machine with
      more than 64GB RAM.
    2. running a 32-bit PAE Xen guest on a host machine with
      more than 64GB RAM
    
    In both cases, a pte could need to have more than 36 bits of physical,
    and masking it to 36-bits will cause fairly severe havoc.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
    Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
    Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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