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Patch series "Fix two above-47bit hint address vs.  THP bugs".

The two get_unmapped_area() implementations have to be fixed to provide
THP-friendly mappings if above-47bit hint address is specified.

This patch (of 2):

Filesystems use thp_get_unmapped_area() to provide THP-friendly
mappings.  For DAX in particular.

Normally, the kernel doesn't create userspace mappings above 47-bit,
even if the machine allows this (such as with 5-level paging on x86-64).
Not all user space is ready to handle wide addresses.  It's known that
at least some JIT compilers use higher bits in pointers to encode their
information.

Userspace can ask for allocation from full address space by specifying
hint address (with or without MAP_FIXED) above 47-bits.  If the
application doesn't need a particular address, but wants to allocate
from whole address space it can specify -1 as a hint ...