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-rw-r--r--Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.rst9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/fsgs.rst2
2 files changed, 1 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.rst b/Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.rst
index 71f882f4a173..ad7ddc13f79d 100644
--- a/Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.rst
@@ -22,15 +22,6 @@ QEMU 2.9 and later support 5-level paging.
Virtual memory layout for 5-level paging is described in
Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/mm.rst
-
-Enabling 5-level paging
-=======================
-CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y enables the feature.
-
-Kernel with CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y still able to boot on 4-level hardware.
-In this case additional page table level -- p4d -- will be folded at
-runtime.
-
User-space and large virtual address space
==========================================
On x86, 5-level paging enables 56-bit userspace virtual address space.
diff --git a/Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/fsgs.rst b/Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/fsgs.rst
index d07e445dac5c..6bda4d16d3f7 100644
--- a/Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/fsgs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/fsgs.rst
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ instructions. Clang 5 supports them as well.
=================== ===========================
_readfsbase_u64() Read the FS base register
- _readfsbase_u64() Read the GS base register
+ _readgsbase_u64() Read the GS base register
_writefsbase_u64() Write the FS base register
_writegsbase_u64() Write the GS base register
=================== ===========================