tree d05c10b8364ee6a1892c9d613ed16cec70897f7f
parent aefbef10e3ae6e2c6e3c54f906f10b34c73a2c66
author Dominik Dingel <dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 1435269579 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1435276835 -0700

s390/mm: make hugepages_supported a boot time decision

There is a potential bug with KVM and hugetlbfs if the hardware does not
support hugepages (EDAT1).  We fix this by making EDAT1 a hard requirement
for hugepages and therefore removing and simplifying code.

As s390, with the sw-emulated hugepages, was the only user of
arch_prepare/release_hugepage I also removed theses calls from common and
other architecture code.

This patch (of 5):

By dropping support for hugepages on machines which do not have the
hardware feature EDAT1, we fix a potential s390 KVM bug.

The bug would happen if a guest is backed by hugetlbfs (not supported
currently), but does not get pagetables with PGSTE.  This would lead to
random memory overwrites.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Dingel <dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>