x86/mm: Introduce the 'no5lvl' kernel parameter
authorKirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Fri, 18 May 2018 10:35:25 +0000 (13:35 +0300)
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>
Sat, 19 May 2018 09:56:57 +0000 (11:56 +0200)
commit372fddf709041743a93e381556f4c41aad1e28f8
tree318f2d073ebfdd56e25f726d2675c4dd09544986
parented7588d5dc6f5e7202fb9bbeb14d94706ba225d7
x86/mm: Introduce the 'no5lvl' kernel parameter

This kernel parameter allows to force kernel to use 4-level paging even
if hardware and kernel support 5-level paging.

The option may be useful to work around regressions related to 5-level
paging.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
arch/x86/boot/compressed/cmdline.c
arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
arch/x86/kernel/head64.c