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Date:	Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:22:49 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
CC:	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] x86-64: non-paravirt systems always have PSE and PGE

A paravirtualized system may not have PSE or PGE available to
guests, to they are not required features.  However, without
paravirt we can assume that any x86-64 implementation will have
them available.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/required-features.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/required-features.h
index d5cd6c5..64cf2d2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/required-features.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/required-features.h
@@ -48,9 +48,15 @@
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
+/* Paravirtualized systems may not have PSE or PGE available */
 #define NEED_PSE	0
+#define NEED_PGE	0
+#else
+#define NEED_PSE	(1<<(X86_FEATURE_PSE) & 31)
+#define NEED_PGE	(1<<(X86_FEATURE_PGE) & 31)
+#endif
 #define NEED_MSR	(1<<(X86_FEATURE_MSR & 31))
-#define NEED_PGE	(1<<(X86_FEATURE_PGE & 31))
 #define NEED_FXSR	(1<<(X86_FEATURE_FXSR & 31))
 #define NEED_XMM	(1<<(X86_FEATURE_XMM & 31))
 #define NEED_XMM2	(1<<(X86_FEATURE_XMM2 & 31))


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