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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2018-04-12 09:42:34 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2018-04-12 09:42:34 +0200 |
| commit | ef389b734691cdc8beb009dd402135dcdcb86a56 (patch) | |
| tree | 9523a37db93cb7c7874a5f18b4d9a7014898b814 /Documentation/x86 | |
| parent | a774635db5c430cbf21fa5d2f2df3d23aaa8e782 (diff) | |
| parent | c76fc98260751e71c884dc1a18a07e427ef033b5 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'WIP.x86/asm' into x86/urgent, because the topic is ready
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.txt | 9 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.txt index 087251a0d99c..2432a5ef86d9 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.txt @@ -20,12 +20,9 @@ Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y enables the feature. -So far, a kernel compiled with the option enabled will be able to boot -only on machines that supports the feature -- see for 'la57' flag in -/proc/cpuinfo. - -The plan is to implement boot-time switching between 4- and 5-level paging -in the future. +Kernel with CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y still able to boot on 4-level hardware. +In this case additional page table level -- p4d -- will be folded at +runtime. == User-space and large virtual address space == |