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As part of the new large address space support, processes start out life with a 128TB virtual address space. However when calling mmap() a process can pass a hint address, and if that hint is > 128TB the kernel will use the full 512TB address space to try and satisfy the mmap() request. Currently we have a check that the hint is > 128TB and < 512TB (TASK_SIZE), which was added as an optimisation to avoid updating addr_limit unnecessarily and also to avoid calling slice_flush_segments() on all CPUs more than necessary. However this has the user-visible side effect that an mmap() hint above 512TB does not search the full address space unless a preceding mmap() used a hint value > 128TB && < 512TB. So fix it to treat any hint above 128TB as a hint to search the full address space, instead of checking the hint against TASK_SIZE, we instead check if the addr_limit is already == TASK_SIZE. This also brings the ABI in-line with what is proposed on x86. ie, that a hint address above 128TB up to and including (2^64)-1 is an indication to search the full address space. Fixes: f4ea6dcb08ea2c (powerpc/mm: Enable mappings above 128TB) Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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