linux-kernel - Re: [RFC, PATCHv1 00/28] 5-level paging

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Date:   Thu, 8 Dec 2016 10:16:07 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        "linux-arch@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCHv1 00/28] 5-level paging

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov
<kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> This patchset is still very early. There are a number of things missing
> that we have to do before asking anyone to merge it (listed below).
> It would be great if folks can start testing applications now (in QEMU) to
> look for breakage.
> Any early comments on the design or the patches would be appreciated as
> well.

Looks ok to me. Starting off with a compile-time config option seems fine.

I do think that the x86 cpuid part should (patch 15) should be the
first patch, so that we see "la57" as a capability in /proc/cpuinfo
whether it's being enabled or not? We should merge that part
regardless of any mm patches, I think.

               Linus