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2018-02-16x86/mm: Allow to boot without LA57 if CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=yKirill A. Shutemov
All pieces of the puzzle are in place and we can now allow to boot with CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y on a machine without LA57 support. Kernel will detect that LA57 is missing and fold p4d at runtime. Update the documentation and the Kconfig option description to reflect the change. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180214182542.69302-10-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-07-21x86: Enable 5-level paging support via CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=yKirill A. Shutemov
Most of things are in place and we can enable support for 5-level paging. The patch makes XEN_PV and XEN_PVH dependent on !X86_5LEVEL. Both are not ready to work with 5-level paging. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170716225954.74185-9-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com [ Minor readability edits. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>