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Commit 3677d4c6 authored by Kirill A. Shutemov's avatar Kirill A. Shutemov Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/boot: Detect 5-level paging support



In this initial implementation we force-require 5-level paging support
from the hardware, when compiled with CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y. (The kernel
will panic during boot on CPUs that don't support 5-level paging.)

We will implement boot-time switch between 4- and 5-level paging later.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.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/20170330080731.65421-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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