ia64: hugepage_free_pgtables() bug-fix
When there are two huge page mappings, like the two in the example below, first one at the end of PGDIR_SIZE, and second one starts at next PGDIR_SIZE (64GB with 16K page size): 8000000ff0000000-8000001000000000 rw-s 8000001000000000-8000001010000000 rw-s Unmapping the first vma would trick free_pgtable to think it can remove one set of pgd indexed at 0x400, and it went ahead purge the entire pmd/pte that are still in use by the second mapping. Now any subsequent access to pmd/pte for the second active mapping will trigger the bug. We've seen hard kernel hang on some platform, some other platform will generate MCA, plus all kinds of unpleasant result.
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