* Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> wrote:

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> PAGE_MASK is an unsigned long, so using it to mask physical addresses 
> on i386 (which are 64-bit wide) leads to truncation.  This can result 
> in page->private of unrelated memory pages being modified, with 
> disasterous results.
> 
> Fix by not using PAGE_MASK for physical addresses; instead calculate 
> the correct value directly from PAGE_SIZE.  Also fix a similar 
> BUG_ON().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>

i have tested this, albeit with less than 4GB RAM.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

	Ingo
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