Thread (47 messages) 47 messages, 8 authors, 2017-04-05

Re: [PATCH 21/26] x86/mm: add support of additional page table level during early boot

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Date: 2017-03-13 07:18:23
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* Kirill A. Shutemov [off-list ref] wrote:
This patch adds support for 5-level paging during early boot.
It generalizes boot for 4- and 5-level paging on 64-bit systems with
compile-time switch between them.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <redacted>
---
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S          | 23 +++++++++--
 arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h              |  2 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64.h           |  6 ++-
 arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/processor-flags.h |  2 +
 arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c                 |  2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/head64.c                    | 40 +++++++++++++-----
 arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S                   | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++--------
Ok, here I'd like to have a C version instead of further complicating an already 
complex assembly version...

I.e. the existing setup code should be converted to C in one patch, and then 
another patch should add 5-level paging support to the C code.

See how this was done for the 32-bit setup code already:

  5a7670ee23f2 x86/boot/32: Convert the 32-bit pgtable setup code from assembly to C

Also, please split it up into per boot path and topic, i.e. have a sparate patch 
for the Xen bits, the KASAN bits, the kexec extension, etc.

Thanks,

	Ingo

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