------- Comment From [email protected] 2020-05-18 07:18 EDT-------
I agree, it's pretty big but this was the least impact approach we could think
of and it fixes a kernel crash that can be triggered from user space simply by 
invoking the s390_pci_read/write_mmio syscalls when running with MIO.

The code mostly mirrors existing PCI code with the addition of the
secondary address space access and is otherwise self contained so it
should be extremely unlikely to impact anything apart from these two
syscalls.

With the new PCI instructions that can be used in userspace, these
syscalls will not be needed in the future but we of course still need
them for applications that have not been updated to use the new
instructions.

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  [UBUNTU 20.04] s390x/pci: s390_pci_mmio_write/read fail when MIO
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