[PATCH] i386 hugetlb tlb correction

From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>

i386 does hardware interpretation of pagetables, so pte_clear() can't be
used on present ptes, as it sets the upper half of the hugepte prior to
setting the lower half (which includes the valid bit).  i.e.  there is a
window where having a hugepage mapped at 56GB and doing pte_clear() in
unmap_hugepage_range() allows other threads of the process to see a
hugepage at 0 in place of the original hugepage at 56GB.

This patch corrects the situation by using ptep_get_and_clear(), which
clears the lower word of the pte prior to clearing the upper word.

There is another nasty where huge_page_release() needs to wait for TLB
flushes before returning the hugepages to the free pool, analogous to the
issue tlb_remove_page() and tlb_flush_mm() repair.

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