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authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>2017-07-17 01:59:54 +0300
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-07-21 10:05:19 +0200
commit77ef56e4f0fbb350d93289aa025c7d605af012d4 (patch)
tree74562d80774df19f6be3a40304b0e77d65d6f9b4 /arch/x86
parentee00f4a32a76ef631394f31d5b6028d50462b357 (diff)
x86: Enable 5-level paging support via CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y
Most of things are in place and we can enable support for 5-level paging. The patch makes XEN_PV and XEN_PVH dependent on !X86_5LEVEL. Both are not ready to work with 5-level paging. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170716225954.74185-9-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com [ Minor readability edits. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/Kconfig19
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/xen/Kconfig5
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 8328bcb9ce8b..ff637dedfafa 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -326,6 +326,7 @@ 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
@@ -1398,6 +1399,24 @@ 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
+ ---help---
+ 5-level paging enables access to larger address space:
+ upto 128 PiB of virtual address space and 4 PiB of
+ physical address space.
+
+ It will be supported by future Intel CPUs.
+
+ Note: a kernel with this option enabled can only be booted
+ on machines that support the feature.
+
+ See Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.txt for more
+ information.
+
+ Say N if unsure.
+
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 027987638e98..1ecd419811a2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ config XEN_PV
bool "Xen PV guest support"
default y
depends on XEN
+ # XEN_PV is not ready to work with 5-level paging.
+ # Changes to hypervisor are also required.
+ depends on !X86_5LEVEL
select XEN_HAVE_PVMMU
select XEN_HAVE_VPMU
help
@@ -75,4 +78,6 @@ config XEN_DEBUG_FS
config XEN_PVH
bool "Support for running as a PVH guest"
depends on XEN && XEN_PVHVM && ACPI
+ # Pre-built page tables are not ready to handle 5-level paging.
+ depends on !X86_5LEVEL
def_bool n