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x86/mm: Enable 5-level paging support by default
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Support of boot-time switching between 4- and 5-level paging mode is
upstream since 4.17.

We run internal testing with 5-level paging support enabled for a while
and it doesn't not cause any functional or performance regression on
4-level paging hardware.

The only 5-level paging related regressions I saw were in early boot
code that runs independently from CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL.

The next major release of distributions expected to have
CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y.

Enable the option by default. It may help to catch obscure bugs early.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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kiryl authored and Ingo Molnar committed Sep 16, 2019
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Expand Up @@ -1483,6 +1483,7 @@ config X86_PAE

config X86_5LEVEL
bool "Enable 5-level page tables support"
default y
select DYNAMIC_MEMORY_LAYOUT
select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
depends on X86_64
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