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[PATCHv2 01/29] x86/cpufeature: Add 5-level paging detecton

From "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCHv2 01/29] x86/cpufeature: Add 5-level paging detecton
Date 2016-12-27 03:00 +0100
Message-ID <sSPdA-45l-19@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Look for 'la57' in /proc/cpuinfo to see if your machine supports 5-level
paging.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
index eafee3161d1c..f2f7dbfe3cb8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
@@ -288,7 +288,8 @@
 #define X86_FEATURE_AVX512VBMI  (16*32+ 1) /* AVX512 Vector Bit Manipulation instructions*/
 #define X86_FEATURE_PKU		(16*32+ 3) /* Protection Keys for Userspace */
 #define X86_FEATURE_OSPKE	(16*32+ 4) /* OS Protection Keys Enable */
-#define X86_FEATURE_RDPID	(16*32+ 22) /* RDPID instruction */
+#define X86_FEATURE_LA57	(16*32+16) /* 5-level page tables */
+#define X86_FEATURE_RDPID	(16*32+22) /* RDPID instruction */
 
 /* AMD-defined CPU features, CPUID level 0x80000007 (ebx), word 17 */
 #define X86_FEATURE_OVERFLOW_RECOV (17*32+0) /* MCA overflow recovery support */
-- 
2.11.0

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