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<title>Merge tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2016-03-10T18:39:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-10T18:39:04+00:00</published>
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Pull arm64 fixes from Will Deacon:
 "I thought we were done for 4.5, but then the 64k-page chaps came
  crawling out of the woodwork.  *sigh*

  The vmemmap fix I sent for -rc7 caused a regression with 64k pages and
  sparsemem and at some point during the release cycle the new hugetlb
  code using contiguous ptes started failing the libhugetlbfs tests with
  64k pages enabled.

  So here are a couple of patches that fix the vmemmap alignment and
  disable the new hugetlb page sizes whilst a proper fix is being
  developed:

   - Temporarily disable huge pages built using contiguous ptes

   - Ensure vmemmap region is sufficiently aligned for sparsemem
     sections"

* tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux:
  arm64: hugetlb: partial revert of 66b3923a1a0f
  arm64: account for sparsemem section alignment when choosing vmemmap offset
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Pull arm64 fixes from Will Deacon:
 "I thought we were done for 4.5, but then the 64k-page chaps came
  crawling out of the woodwork.  *sigh*

  The vmemmap fix I sent for -rc7 caused a regression with 64k pages and
  sparsemem and at some point during the release cycle the new hugetlb
  code using contiguous ptes started failing the libhugetlbfs tests with
  64k pages enabled.

  So here are a couple of patches that fix the vmemmap alignment and
  disable the new hugetlb page sizes whilst a proper fix is being
  developed:

   - Temporarily disable huge pages built using contiguous ptes

   - Ensure vmemmap region is sufficiently aligned for sparsemem
     sections"

* tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux:
  arm64: hugetlb: partial revert of 66b3923a1a0f
  arm64: account for sparsemem section alignment when choosing vmemmap offset
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<entry>
<title>arm64: kasan: clear stale stack poison</title>
<updated>2016-03-09T23:43:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-09T22:08:21+00:00</published>
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Functions which the compiler has instrumented for KASAN place poison on
the stack shadow upon entry and remove this poison prior to returning.

In the case of cpuidle, CPUs exit the kernel a number of levels deep in
C code.  Any instrumented functions on this critical path will leave
portions of the stack shadow poisoned.

If CPUs lose context and return to the kernel via a cold path, we
restore a prior context saved in __cpu_suspend_enter are forgotten, and
we never remove the poison they placed in the stack shadow area by
functions calls between this and the actual exit of the kernel.

Thus, (depending on stackframe layout) subsequent calls to instrumented
functions may hit this stale poison, resulting in (spurious) KASAN
splats to the console.

To avoid this, clear any stale poison from the idle thread for a CPU
prior to bringing a CPU online.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Functions which the compiler has instrumented for KASAN place poison on
the stack shadow upon entry and remove this poison prior to returning.

In the case of cpuidle, CPUs exit the kernel a number of levels deep in
C code.  Any instrumented functions on this critical path will leave
portions of the stack shadow poisoned.

If CPUs lose context and return to the kernel via a cold path, we
restore a prior context saved in __cpu_suspend_enter are forgotten, and
we never remove the poison they placed in the stack shadow area by
functions calls between this and the actual exit of the kernel.

Thus, (depending on stackframe layout) subsequent calls to instrumented
functions may hit this stale poison, resulting in (spurious) KASAN
splats to the console.

To avoid this, clear any stale poison from the idle thread for a CPU
prior to bringing a CPU online.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: hugetlb: partial revert of 66b3923a1a0f</title>
<updated>2016-03-09T15:29:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-09T15:22:55+00:00</published>
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Commit 66b3923a1a0f ("arm64: hugetlb: add support for PTE contiguous bit")
introduced support for huge pages using the contiguous bit in the PTE
as opposed to block mappings, which may be slightly unwieldy (512M) in
64k page configurations.

Unfortunately, this support has resulted in some late regressions when
running the libhugetlbfs test suite with 64k pages and CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
as a result of a BUG:

 | readback (2M: 64):	------------[ cut here ]------------
 | kernel BUG at fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c:446!
 | Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] SMP
 | Modules linked in:
 | CPU: 7 PID: 1448 Comm: readback Not tainted 4.5.0-rc7 #148
 | Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
 | task: fffffe0040964b00 ti: fffffe00c2668000 task.ti: fffffe00c2668000
 | PC is at remove_inode_hugepages+0x44c/0x480
 | LR is at remove_inode_hugepages+0x264/0x480

Rather than revert the entire patch, simply avoid advertising the
contiguous huge page sizes for now while people are actively working on
a fix. This patch can then be reverted once things have been sorted out.

Cc: David Woods &lt;dwoods@ezchip.com&gt;
Reported-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Commit 66b3923a1a0f ("arm64: hugetlb: add support for PTE contiguous bit")
introduced support for huge pages using the contiguous bit in the PTE
as opposed to block mappings, which may be slightly unwieldy (512M) in
64k page configurations.

Unfortunately, this support has resulted in some late regressions when
running the libhugetlbfs test suite with 64k pages and CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
as a result of a BUG:

 | readback (2M: 64):	------------[ cut here ]------------
 | kernel BUG at fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c:446!
 | Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] SMP
 | Modules linked in:
 | CPU: 7 PID: 1448 Comm: readback Not tainted 4.5.0-rc7 #148
 | Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
 | task: fffffe0040964b00 ti: fffffe00c2668000 task.ti: fffffe00c2668000
 | PC is at remove_inode_hugepages+0x44c/0x480
 | LR is at remove_inode_hugepages+0x264/0x480

Rather than revert the entire patch, simply avoid advertising the
contiguous huge page sizes for now while people are actively working on
a fix. This patch can then be reverted once things have been sorted out.

Cc: David Woods &lt;dwoods@ezchip.com&gt;
Reported-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: account for sparsemem section alignment when choosing vmemmap offset</title>
<updated>2016-03-09T14:57:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-08T14:09:29+00:00</published>
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Commit dfd55ad85e4a ("arm64: vmemmap: use virtual projection of linear
region") fixed an issue where the struct page array would overflow into the
adjacent virtual memory region if system RAM was placed so high up in
physical memory that its addresses were not representable in the build time
configured virtual address size.

However, the fix failed to take into account that the vmemmap region needs
to be relatively aligned with respect to the sparsemem section size, so that
a sequence of page structs corresponding with a sparsemem section in the
linear region appears naturally aligned in the vmemmap region.

So round up vmemmap to sparsemem section size. Since this essentially moves
the projection of the linear region up in memory, also revert the reduction
of the size of the vmemmap region.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: dfd55ad85e4a ("arm64: vmemmap: use virtual projection of linear region")
Tested-by: Mark Langsdorf &lt;mlangsdo@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: David Daney &lt;david.daney@cavium.com&gt;
Tested-by: Robert Richter &lt;rrichter@cavium.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Commit dfd55ad85e4a ("arm64: vmemmap: use virtual projection of linear
region") fixed an issue where the struct page array would overflow into the
adjacent virtual memory region if system RAM was placed so high up in
physical memory that its addresses were not representable in the build time
configured virtual address size.

However, the fix failed to take into account that the vmemmap region needs
to be relatively aligned with respect to the sparsemem section size, so that
a sequence of page structs corresponding with a sparsemem section in the
linear region appears naturally aligned in the vmemmap region.

So round up vmemmap to sparsemem section size. Since this essentially moves
the projection of the linear region up in memory, also revert the reduction
of the size of the vmemmap region.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: dfd55ad85e4a ("arm64: vmemmap: use virtual projection of linear region")
Tested-by: Mark Langsdorf &lt;mlangsdo@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: David Daney &lt;david.daney@cavium.com&gt;
Tested-by: Robert Richter &lt;rrichter@cavium.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2016-03-05T01:43:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-05T01:43:40+00:00</published>
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Pull arm64 fix from Will Deacon:
 "Arm64 fix for -rc7.  Without it, our struct page array can overflow
  the vmemmap region on systems with a large PHYS_OFFSET.

  Nothing else on the radar at the moment, so hopefully that's it for
  4.5 from us.

  Summary: Ensure struct page array fits within vmemmap area"

* tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux:
  arm64: vmemmap: use virtual projection of linear region
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Pull arm64 fix from Will Deacon:
 "Arm64 fix for -rc7.  Without it, our struct page array can overflow
  the vmemmap region on systems with a large PHYS_OFFSET.

  Nothing else on the radar at the moment, so hopefully that's it for
  4.5 from us.

  Summary: Ensure struct page array fits within vmemmap area"

* tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux:
  arm64: vmemmap: use virtual projection of linear region
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2016-03-03T19:54:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-03T19:54:56+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
 - ARM/MIPS: Fixes for ioctls when copy_from_user returns nonzero
 - x86: Small fix for Skylake TSC scaling
 - x86: Improved fix for last week's missed hardware breakpoint bug

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  kvm: x86: Update tsc multiplier on change.
  mips/kvm: fix ioctl error handling
  arm/arm64: KVM: Fix ioctl error handling
  KVM: x86: fix root cause for missed hardware breakpoints
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Pull KVM fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
 - ARM/MIPS: Fixes for ioctls when copy_from_user returns nonzero
 - x86: Small fix for Skylake TSC scaling
 - x86: Improved fix for last week's missed hardware breakpoint bug

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  kvm: x86: Update tsc multiplier on change.
  mips/kvm: fix ioctl error handling
  arm/arm64: KVM: Fix ioctl error handling
  KVM: x86: fix root cause for missed hardware breakpoints
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvm-arm-for-4.5-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into kvm-master</title>
<updated>2016-03-02T09:31:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-02T09:31:30+00:00</published>
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KVM/ARM fixes for 4.5-rc7

- Fix ioctl error handling on the timer path
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KVM/ARM fixes for 4.5-rc7

- Fix ioctl error handling on the timer path
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm/arm64: KVM: Fix ioctl error handling</title>
<updated>2016-02-29T09:56:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-28T15:32:07+00:00</published>
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Calling return copy_to_user(...) in an ioctl will not
do the right thing if there's a pagefault:
copy_to_user returns the number of bytes not copied
in this case.

Fix up kvm to do
	return copy_to_user(...)) ?  -EFAULT : 0;

everywhere.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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Calling return copy_to_user(...) in an ioctl will not
do the right thing if there's a pagefault:
copy_to_user returns the number of bytes not copied
in this case.

Fix up kvm to do
	return copy_to_user(...)) ?  -EFAULT : 0;

everywhere.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: ASLR: use get_random_long()</title>
<updated>2016-02-27T18:28:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Cashman</name>
<email>dcashman@android.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-26T23:19:37+00:00</published>
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Replace calls to get_random_int() followed by a cast to (unsigned long)
with calls to get_random_long().  Also address shifting bug which, in
case of x86 removed entropy mask for mmap_rnd_bits values &gt; 31 bits.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Cashman &lt;dcashman@android.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Nick Kralevich &lt;nnk@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Vander Stoep &lt;jeffv@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salyzyn &lt;salyzyn@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Replace calls to get_random_int() followed by a cast to (unsigned long)
with calls to get_random_long().  Also address shifting bug which, in
case of x86 removed entropy mask for mmap_rnd_bits values &gt; 31 bits.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Cashman &lt;dcashman@android.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Nick Kralevich &lt;nnk@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Vander Stoep &lt;jeffv@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salyzyn &lt;salyzyn@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: vmemmap: use virtual projection of linear region</title>
<updated>2016-02-26T17:59:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-26T16:57:13+00:00</published>
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Commit dd006da21646 ("arm64: mm: increase VA range of identity map") made
some changes to the memory mapping code to allow physical memory to reside
at an offset that exceeds the size of the virtual mapping.

However, since the size of the vmemmap area is proportional to the size of
the VA area, but it is populated relative to the physical space, we may
end up with the struct page array being mapped outside of the vmemmap
region. For instance, on my Seattle A0 box, I can see the following output
in the dmesg log.

   vmemmap : 0xffffffbdc0000000 - 0xffffffbfc0000000   (     8 GB maximum)
             0xffffffbfc0000000 - 0xffffffbfd0000000   (   256 MB actual)

We can fix this by deciding that the vmemmap region is not a projection of
the physical space, but of the virtual space above PAGE_OFFSET, i.e., the
linear region. This way, we are guaranteed that the vmemmap region is of
sufficient size, and we can even reduce the size by half.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Commit dd006da21646 ("arm64: mm: increase VA range of identity map") made
some changes to the memory mapping code to allow physical memory to reside
at an offset that exceeds the size of the virtual mapping.

However, since the size of the vmemmap area is proportional to the size of
the VA area, but it is populated relative to the physical space, we may
end up with the struct page array being mapped outside of the vmemmap
region. For instance, on my Seattle A0 box, I can see the following output
in the dmesg log.

   vmemmap : 0xffffffbdc0000000 - 0xffffffbfc0000000   (     8 GB maximum)
             0xffffffbfc0000000 - 0xffffffbfd0000000   (   256 MB actual)

We can fix this by deciding that the vmemmap region is not a projection of
the physical space, but of the virtual space above PAGE_OFFSET, i.e., the
linear region. This way, we are guaranteed that the vmemmap region is of
sufficient size, and we can even reduce the size by half.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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