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authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>2018-02-26 21:04:47 +0300
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2018-03-12 09:29:24 +0100
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x86/boot/compressed/64: Describe the logic behind the LA57 check
The patch explains the LA57 check in more details. Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180226180451.86788-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/boot')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c18
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c
index 3f1697fcc7a8..45c76eff2718 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c
@@ -18,10 +18,22 @@ struct paging_config paging_prepare(void)
{
struct paging_config paging_config = {};
- /* Check if LA57 is desired and supported */
- if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL) && native_cpuid_eax(0) >= 7 &&
- (native_cpuid_ecx(7) & (1 << (X86_FEATURE_LA57 & 31))))
+ /*
+ * Check if LA57 is desired and supported.
+ *
+ * There are two parts to the check:
+ * - if the kernel supports 5-level paging: CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y
+ * - if the machine supports 5-level paging:
+ * + CPUID leaf 7 is supported
+ * + the leaf has the feature bit set
+ *
+ * That's substitute for boot_cpu_has() in early boot code.
+ */
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL) &&
+ native_cpuid_eax(0) >= 7 &&
+ (native_cpuid_ecx(7) & (1 << (X86_FEATURE_LA57 & 31)))) {
paging_config.l5_required = 1;
+ }
return paging_config;
}