From: Juliana Rodrigueiro <juliana.rodrigue...@intra2net.com> Sent: Thursday, 
May 2, 2019 9:14 AM
> 
> So I got to the following commit:
> 
> commit 6ba34171bcbd10321c6cf554e0c1144d170f9d1a
> Author: Michael Kelley <mikel...@microsoft.com>
> Date:   Thu Aug 2 03:08:24 2018 +0000
> 
>     Drivers: hv: vmbus: Remove use of slow_virt_to_phys()
> 
>     slow_virt_to_phys() is only implemented for arch/x86.
>     Remove its use in arch independent Hyper-V drivers, and
>     replace with test for vmalloc() address followed by
>     appropriate v-to-p function. This follows the typical
>     pattern of other drivers and avoids the need to implement
>     slow_virt_to_phys() for Hyper-V on ARM64.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley <mikel...@microsoft.com>
>     Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <k...@microsoft.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
> 
> The catch is that slow_virt_to_phys has a special trick implemented in order
> to keep specifically 32-PAE kernel working, it is explained in a comment
> inside the function.
> 
> Reverting this commit makes the kernel 4.19 32-bit PAE work again. However I
> believe a better solution might exist.
> 
> Comments are very much appreciated.
> 

Julie -- thanks for tracking down the cause of the issue.  I'll try to
look at this tomorrow and propose a solution.

Michael Kelley

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