[PATCH] ARM-related ptep_to_address() fix
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> rmk mentioned that ARM was borked as the relation, assumed by generic rmap, PTRS_PER_PTE*sizeof(pte_t) == PAGE_SIZE, fails to hold. The following patch, developed jointly with him (or depending on POV, by him with me acting as codemonkey), is reported to resolve the issue. Specifically, while ARM dedicates an entire PAGE_SIZE -sized block of memory to each PTE table, the PTE table itself only spans half that, the remainder being dedicated to hardware-interpreted structures. As the hardware structure must be contiguous, wider ptes can't be used. So the core-visible PTE table only spans PAGE_SIZE/2 bytes, violating the assumption. This corrects masking and scaling done in ptep_to_address().
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