linux-kernel - [PATCH 25/26] x86: enable 5-level paging support

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Message-Id: <20170313055020.69655-26-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Mon, 13 Mar 2017 08:50:19 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, x86@...nel.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:     Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 25/26] x86: enable 5-level paging support

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@...ux.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 747f06f00a22..43b3343402f5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -317,6 +317,7 @@ 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
@@ -1381,6 +1382,10 @@ 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
-- 
2.11.0