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SubjectRe: [PATCH 7/8] x86: Enable 5-level paging support
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On 06/04/17 16:01, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> Most of things are in place and we can enable support of 5-level paging.
>
> Enabling XEN with 5-level paging requires more work. The patch makes XEN
> dependent on !X86_5LEVEL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/Kconfig | 5 +++++
> arch/x86/xen/Kconfig | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> index 4e153e93273f..7a76dcac357e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> @@ -318,6 +318,7 @@ config FIX_EARLYCON_MEM
>
> config PGTABLE_LEVELS
> int
> + default 5 if X86_5LEVEL
> default 4 if X86_64
> default 3 if X86_PAE
> default 2
> @@ -1390,6 +1391,10 @@ config X86_PAE
> has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also
> consumes more pagetable space per process.
>
> +config X86_5LEVEL
> + bool "Enable 5-level page tables support"
> + depends on X86_64
> +
> config ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
> def_bool y
> depends on X86_64 || X86_PAE
> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig b/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig
> index 76b6dbd627df..b90d481ce5a1 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig
> @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
> config XEN
> bool "Xen guest support"
> depends on PARAVIRT
> + depends on !X86_5LEVEL
> select PARAVIRT_CLOCK
> select XEN_HAVE_PVMMU
> select XEN_HAVE_VPMU
>

Just a heads up: this last change will conflict with the Xen tree.

Can't we just ignore the additional level in Xen pv mode and run with
4 levels instead?


Juergen

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