[RFC, PATCHv1 27/28] x86: enable la57 support

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Thu Dec 08 2016 - 11:26:39 EST


Most of things are in place and we can enable support of 5-level paging.
Things that known to be broken marked as BROKEN.

Not-yet-Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/Kconfig | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index df4f1d514ab0..83a4c22111b3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -309,6 +309,7 @@ config DEBUG_RODATA

config PGTABLE_LEVELS
int
+ default 5 if X86_5LEVEL
default 4 if X86_64
default 3 if X86_PAE
default 2
@@ -1340,6 +1341,10 @@ 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
@@ -1698,6 +1703,7 @@ config X86_SMAP
config X86_INTEL_MPX
prompt "Intel MPX (Memory Protection Extensions)"
def_bool n
+ depends on !X86_5LEVEL
depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL
---help---
MPX provides hardware features that can be used in
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