On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 01:58 -0800, Dexuan Cui wrote:
> "d1cd12108346: x86, pageattr: Prevent overflow in slow_virt_to_phys() for
> X86_PAE"
> was unintentionally removed by the recent
> "34437e67a672: x86/mm: Fix slow_virt_to_phys() to handle large PAT bit".
> 
> And, the variable 'phys_addr' was defined as "unsigned long" by mistake
> -- it should
> be "phys_addr_t".
> 
> As a result, Hyper-V network driver in 32-PAE Linux guest can't work
> again.
> 
> Fixes: "commmit 34437e67a672: x86/mm: Fix slow_virt_to_phys() to handle
> large PAT bit"
> Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <[email protected]>
> Cc: Toshi Kani <[email protected]>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
> Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <[email protected]>
> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]

Thanks for the fix and adding the comment to explain the trick!  The change
looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani <[email protected]>

-Toshi

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