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x86: set PAE PHYSICAL_MASK_SHIFT to 44 bits.
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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: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[email protected]>
Cc: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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jsgf authored and Ingo Molnar committed Jun 19, 2008
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#define __PAGE_OFFSET _AC(CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET, UL)

#ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE
#define __PHYSICAL_MASK_SHIFT 36
/* 44=32+12, the limit we can fit into an unsigned long pfn */
#define __PHYSICAL_MASK_SHIFT 44
#define __VIRTUAL_MASK_SHIFT 32
#define PAGETABLE_LEVELS 3

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