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x86/mm: Allow to boot without LA57 if CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y

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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>
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Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-02-14 21:25:42 +03:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 91f606a8fa
commit 6657fca06e
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Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.txt
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@@ -20,12 +20,9 @@ Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt
CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y enables the feature.
So far, a kernel compiled with the option enabled will be able to boot
only on machines that supports the feature -- see for 'la57' flag in
/proc/cpuinfo.
The plan is to implement boot-time switching between 4- and 5-level paging
in the future.
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 ==