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<title>linux.git/mm, branch v3.17-rc7</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2014-09-28T00:05:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-28T00:05:14+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs fixes from Al Viro:
 "Assorted fixes + unifying __d_move() and __d_materialise_dentry() +
  minimal regression fix for d_path() of victims of overwriting rename()
  ported on top of that"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  vfs: Don't exchange "short" filenames unconditionally.
  fold swapping -&gt;d_name.hash into switch_names()
  fold unlocking the children into dentry_unlock_parents_for_move()
  kill __d_materialise_dentry()
  __d_materialise_dentry(): flip the order of arguments
  __d_move(): fold manipulations with -&gt;d_child/-&gt;d_subdirs
  don't open-code d_rehash() in d_materialise_unique()
  pull rehashing and unlocking the target dentry into __d_materialise_dentry()
  ufs: deal with nfsd/iget races
  fuse: honour max_read and max_write in direct_io mode
  shmem: fix nlink for rename overwrite directory
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Pull vfs fixes from Al Viro:
 "Assorted fixes + unifying __d_move() and __d_materialise_dentry() +
  minimal regression fix for d_path() of victims of overwriting rename()
  ported on top of that"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  vfs: Don't exchange "short" filenames unconditionally.
  fold swapping -&gt;d_name.hash into switch_names()
  fold unlocking the children into dentry_unlock_parents_for_move()
  kill __d_materialise_dentry()
  __d_materialise_dentry(): flip the order of arguments
  __d_move(): fold manipulations with -&gt;d_child/-&gt;d_subdirs
  don't open-code d_rehash() in d_materialise_unique()
  pull rehashing and unlocking the target dentry into __d_materialise_dentry()
  ufs: deal with nfsd/iget races
  fuse: honour max_read and max_write in direct_io mode
  shmem: fix nlink for rename overwrite directory
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.17-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup</title>
<updated>2014-09-27T23:45:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-27T23:45:33+00:00</published>
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Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:
 "This is quite late but these need to be backported anyway.

  This is the fix for a long-standing cpuset bug which existed from
  2009.  cpuset makes use of PF_SPREAD_{PAGE|SLAB} flags to modify the
  task's memory allocation behavior according to the settings of the
  cpuset it belongs to; unfortunately, when those flags have to be
  changed, cpuset did so directly even whlie the target task is running,
  which is obviously racy as task-&gt;flags may be modified by the task
  itself at any time.  This obscure bug manifested as corrupt
  PF_USED_MATH flag leading to a weird crash.

  The bug is fixed by moving the flag to task-&gt;atomic_flags.  The first
  two are prepatory ones to help defining atomic_flags accessors and the
  third one is the actual fix"

* 'for-3.17-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cpuset: PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB should be atomic flags
  sched: add macros to define bitops for task atomic flags
  sched: fix confusing PFA_NO_NEW_PRIVS constant
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Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:
 "This is quite late but these need to be backported anyway.

  This is the fix for a long-standing cpuset bug which existed from
  2009.  cpuset makes use of PF_SPREAD_{PAGE|SLAB} flags to modify the
  task's memory allocation behavior according to the settings of the
  cpuset it belongs to; unfortunately, when those flags have to be
  changed, cpuset did so directly even whlie the target task is running,
  which is obviously racy as task-&gt;flags may be modified by the task
  itself at any time.  This obscure bug manifested as corrupt
  PF_USED_MATH flag leading to a weird crash.

  The bug is fixed by moving the flag to task-&gt;atomic_flags.  The first
  two are prepatory ones to help defining atomic_flags accessors and the
  third one is the actual fix"

* 'for-3.17-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cpuset: PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB should be atomic flags
  sched: add macros to define bitops for task atomic flags
  sched: fix confusing PFA_NO_NEW_PRIVS constant
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fuse: honour max_read and max_write in direct_io mode</title>
<updated>2014-09-27T01:16:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-24T15:09:11+00:00</published>
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The third argument of fuse_get_user_pages() "nbytesp" refers to the number of
bytes a caller asked to pack into fuse request. This value may be lesser
than capacity of fuse request or iov_iter.  So fuse_get_user_pages() must
ensure that *nbytesp won't grow.

Now, when helper iov_iter_get_pages() performs all hard work of extracting
pages from iov_iter, it can be done by passing properly calculated
"maxsize" to the helper.

The other caller of iov_iter_get_pages() (dio_refill_pages()) doesn't need
this capability, so pass LONG_MAX as the maxsize argument here.

Fixes: c9c37e2e6378 ("fuse: switch to iov_iter_get_pages()")
Reported-by: Werner Baumann &lt;werner.baumann@onlinehome.de&gt;
Tested-by: Maxim Patlasov &lt;mpatlasov@parallels.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The third argument of fuse_get_user_pages() "nbytesp" refers to the number of
bytes a caller asked to pack into fuse request. This value may be lesser
than capacity of fuse request or iov_iter.  So fuse_get_user_pages() must
ensure that *nbytesp won't grow.

Now, when helper iov_iter_get_pages() performs all hard work of extracting
pages from iov_iter, it can be done by passing properly calculated
"maxsize" to the helper.

The other caller of iov_iter_get_pages() (dio_refill_pages()) doesn't need
this capability, so pass LONG_MAX as the maxsize argument here.

Fixes: c9c37e2e6378 ("fuse: switch to iov_iter_get_pages()")
Reported-by: Werner Baumann &lt;werner.baumann@onlinehome.de&gt;
Tested-by: Maxim Patlasov &lt;mpatlasov@parallels.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>shmem: fix nlink for rename overwrite directory</title>
<updated>2014-09-27T01:16:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-24T15:56:17+00:00</published>
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If overwriting an empty directory with rename, then need to drop the extra
nlink.

Test prog:

#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
#include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
#include &lt;err.h&gt;
#include &lt;sys/stat.h&gt;

int main(void)
{
	const char *test_dir1 = "test-dir1";
	const char *test_dir2 = "test-dir2";
	int res;
	int fd;
	struct stat statbuf;

	res = mkdir(test_dir1, 0777);
	if (res == -1)
		err(1, "mkdir(\"%s\")", test_dir1);

	res = mkdir(test_dir2, 0777);
	if (res == -1)
		err(1, "mkdir(\"%s\")", test_dir2);

	fd = open(test_dir2, O_RDONLY);
	if (fd == -1)
		err(1, "open(\"%s\")", test_dir2);

	res = rename(test_dir1, test_dir2);
	if (res == -1)
		err(1, "rename(\"%s\", \"%s\")", test_dir1, test_dir2);

	res = fstat(fd, &amp;statbuf);
	if (res == -1)
		err(1, "fstat(%i)", fd);

	if (statbuf.st_nlink != 0) {
		fprintf(stderr, "nlink is %lu, should be 0\n", statbuf.st_nlink);
		return 1;
	}

	return 0;
}

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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If overwriting an empty directory with rename, then need to drop the extra
nlink.

Test prog:

#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
#include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
#include &lt;err.h&gt;
#include &lt;sys/stat.h&gt;

int main(void)
{
	const char *test_dir1 = "test-dir1";
	const char *test_dir2 = "test-dir2";
	int res;
	int fd;
	struct stat statbuf;

	res = mkdir(test_dir1, 0777);
	if (res == -1)
		err(1, "mkdir(\"%s\")", test_dir1);

	res = mkdir(test_dir2, 0777);
	if (res == -1)
		err(1, "mkdir(\"%s\")", test_dir2);

	fd = open(test_dir2, O_RDONLY);
	if (fd == -1)
		err(1, "open(\"%s\")", test_dir2);

	res = rename(test_dir1, test_dir2);
	if (res == -1)
		err(1, "rename(\"%s\", \"%s\")", test_dir1, test_dir2);

	res = fstat(fd, &amp;statbuf);
	if (res == -1)
		err(1, "fstat(%i)", fd);

	if (statbuf.st_nlink != 0) {
		fprintf(stderr, "nlink is %lu, should be 0\n", statbuf.st_nlink);
		return 1;
	}

	return 0;
}

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: softdirty: keep bit when zapping file pte</title>
<updated>2014-09-26T15:10:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Feiner</name>
<email>pfeiner@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-25T23:05:29+00:00</published>
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This fixes the same bug as b43790eedd31 ("mm: softdirty: don't forget to
save file map softdiry bit on unmap") and 9aed8614af5a ("mm/memory.c:
don't forget to set softdirty on file mapped fault") where the return
value of pte_*mksoft_dirty was being ignored.

To be sure that no other pte/pmd "mk" function return values were being
ignored, I annotated the functions in arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
with __must_check and rebuilt.

The userspace effect of this bug is that the softdirty mark might be
lost if a file mapped pte get zapped.

Signed-off-by: Peter Feiner &lt;pfeiner@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Jamie Liu &lt;jamieliu@google.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[3.12+]
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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This fixes the same bug as b43790eedd31 ("mm: softdirty: don't forget to
save file map softdiry bit on unmap") and 9aed8614af5a ("mm/memory.c:
don't forget to set softdirty on file mapped fault") where the return
value of pte_*mksoft_dirty was being ignored.

To be sure that no other pte/pmd "mk" function return values were being
ignored, I annotated the functions in arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
with __must_check and rebuilt.

The userspace effect of this bug is that the softdirty mark might be
lost if a file mapped pte get zapped.

Signed-off-by: Peter Feiner &lt;pfeiner@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Jamie Liu &lt;jamieliu@google.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[3.12+]
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>mm, slab: initialize object alignment on cache creation</title>
<updated>2014-09-26T15:10:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Rientjes</name>
<email>rientjes@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-25T23:05:20+00:00</published>
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Since commit 4590685546a3 ("mm/sl[aou]b: Common alignment code"), the
"ralign" automatic variable in __kmem_cache_create() may be used as
uninitialized.

The proper alignment defaults to BYTES_PER_WORD and can be overridden by
SLAB_RED_ZONE or the alignment specified by the caller.

This fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85031

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Andrei Elovikov &lt;a.elovikov@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.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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Since commit 4590685546a3 ("mm/sl[aou]b: Common alignment code"), the
"ralign" automatic variable in __kmem_cache_create() may be used as
uninitialized.

The proper alignment defaults to BYTES_PER_WORD and can be overridden by
SLAB_RED_ZONE or the alignment specified by the caller.

This fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85031

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Andrei Elovikov &lt;a.elovikov@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.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;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpuset: PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB should be atomic flags</title>
<updated>2014-09-25T02:16:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zefan Li</name>
<email>lizefan@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-25T01:41:02+00:00</published>
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When we change cpuset.memory_spread_{page,slab}, cpuset will flip
PF_SPREAD_{PAGE,SLAB} bit of tsk-&gt;flags for each task in that cpuset.
This should be done using atomic bitops, but currently we don't,
which is broken.

Tetsuo reported a hard-to-reproduce kernel crash on RHEL6, which happened
when one thread tried to clear PF_USED_MATH while at the same time another
thread tried to flip PF_SPREAD_PAGE/PF_SPREAD_SLAB. They both operate on
the same task.

Here's the full report:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/19/230

To fix this, we make PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB atomic flags.

v4:
- updated mm/slab.c. (Fengguang Wu)
- updated Documentation.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Miao Xie &lt;miaox@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Fixes: 950592f7b991 ("cpusets: update tasks' page/slab spread flags in time")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 2.6.31+
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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When we change cpuset.memory_spread_{page,slab}, cpuset will flip
PF_SPREAD_{PAGE,SLAB} bit of tsk-&gt;flags for each task in that cpuset.
This should be done using atomic bitops, but currently we don't,
which is broken.

Tetsuo reported a hard-to-reproduce kernel crash on RHEL6, which happened
when one thread tried to clear PF_USED_MATH while at the same time another
thread tried to flip PF_SPREAD_PAGE/PF_SPREAD_SLAB. They both operate on
the same task.

Here's the full report:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/19/230

To fix this, we make PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB atomic flags.

v4:
- updated mm/slab.c. (Fengguang Wu)
- updated Documentation.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Miao Xie &lt;miaox@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Fixes: 950592f7b991 ("cpusets: update tasks' page/slab spread flags in time")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 2.6.31+
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2014-09-22T18:58:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-22T18:58:23+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Two very simple bugfixes, affecting all supported architectures"

[ Two? There's three commits in here.  Oh well, I guess Paolo didn't
  count the preparatory symbol export ]

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  KVM: correct null pid check in kvm_vcpu_yield_to()
  KVM: check for !is_zero_pfn() in kvm_is_mmio_pfn()
  mm: export symbol dependencies of is_zero_pfn()
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Pull KVM fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Two very simple bugfixes, affecting all supported architectures"

[ Two? There's three commits in here.  Oh well, I guess Paolo didn't
  count the preparatory symbol export ]

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  KVM: correct null pid check in kvm_vcpu_yield_to()
  KVM: check for !is_zero_pfn() in kvm_is_mmio_pfn()
  mm: export symbol dependencies of is_zero_pfn()
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Fix unbalanced mutex in dma_pool_create().</title>
<updated>2014-09-18T17:39:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Krzysztof Hałasa</name>
<email>khalasa@piap.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-18T13:12:02+00:00</published>
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dma_pool_create() needs to unlock the mutex in error case.  The bug was
introduced in the 3.16 by commit cc6b664aa26d ("mm/dmapool.c: remove
redundant NULL check for dev in dma_pool_create()")/

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Hałasa &lt;khc@piap.pl&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org  # v3.16
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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dma_pool_create() needs to unlock the mutex in error case.  The bug was
introduced in the 3.16 by commit cc6b664aa26d ("mm/dmapool.c: remove
redundant NULL check for dev in dma_pool_create()")/

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Hałasa &lt;khc@piap.pl&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org  # v3.16
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>mm: export symbol dependencies of is_zero_pfn()</title>
<updated>2014-09-14T14:25:14+00:00</updated>
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<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
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<published>2014-09-12T20:17:23+00:00</published>
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In order to make the static inline function is_zero_pfn() callable by
modules, export its symbol dependencies 'zero_pfn' and (for s390 and
mips) 'zero_page_mask'.

We need this for KVM, as CONFIG_KVM is a tristate for all supported
architectures except ARM and arm64, and testing a pfn whether it refers
to the zero page is required to correctly distinguish the zero page
from other special RAM ranges that may also have the PG_reserved bit
set, but need to be treated as MMIO memory.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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In order to make the static inline function is_zero_pfn() callable by
modules, export its symbol dependencies 'zero_pfn' and (for s390 and
mips) 'zero_page_mask'.

We need this for KVM, as CONFIG_KVM is a tristate for all supported
architectures except ARM and arm64, and testing a pfn whether it refers
to the zero page is required to correctly distinguish the zero page
from other special RAM ranges that may also have the PG_reserved bit
set, but need to be treated as MMIO memory.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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