Re: [PATCH] x86/boot/64: Initialize 5-level paging variables earlier

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Tue Oct 13 2020 - 05:12:35 EST


On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 10:33:58AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 11:20:47AM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > With TCG or KVM? I use -machine "type=q35,accel=tcg".
>
> Thx, that triggered it - it was KVM before.
>
> Btw, are 5level boxes shipping already or not yet?

Not yet.

> Because I've not seen one yet. If you have access to the hw, I'd
> appreciate it if you could test Arvind's patch ontop of
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/log/?h=x86/seves
>
> which does that early pagetable rework.

Okay, will do.

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Kirill A. Shutemov