linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2 08/10] x86/mm: Replace compile-time checks for 5-level with runtime-time

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Date:   Wed, 26 Jul 2017 19:43:35 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:     Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Cc:     "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        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>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 08/10] x86/mm: Replace compile-time checks for 5-level
 with runtime-time

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 09:28:16AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 25/07/17 11:05, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 04:24:06PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> >> Xen PV guests will never run with 5-level-paging enabled. So I guess you
> >> can drop the complete if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL)) {} block.
> > 
> > There is more code to drop from mmu_pv.c.
> > 
> > But while there, I thought if with boot-time 5-level paging switching we
> > can allow kernel to compile with XEN_PV and XEN_PVH, so the kernel image
> > can be used in these XEN modes with 4-level paging.
> > 
> > Could you check if with the patch below we can boot in XEN_PV and XEN_PVH
> > modes?
> 
> We can't. I have used your branch:
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kas/linux.git
> la57/boot-switching/v2
> 
> with this patch applied on top.
> 
> Doesn't boot PV guest with X86_5LEVEL configured (very early crash).

Hm. Okay.

Have you tried PVH?

> Doesn't build with X86_5LEVEL not configured:
> 
>   AS      arch/x86/kernel/head_64.o

I've fixed the patch and split the patch into two parts: cleanup and
re-enabling XEN_PV and XEN_PVH for X86_5LEVEL.

There's chance that I screw somthing up in clenaup part. Could you check
that?

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov