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>
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 8328bcb..ff637de 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -326,6 +326,7 @@
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 @@
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
