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[PATCHv5 8/9] x86: Enable 5-level paging support

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  [PATCHv5 8/9] x86: Enable 5-level paging support "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2017-04-20 18:30 +0200

#1627656 — [PATCHv5 8/9] 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@linux.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 4e153e93273f..7a76dcac357e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -318,6 +318,7 @@ 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
@@ -1390,6 +1391,10 @@ 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

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