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We need to cover two basic cases: when bootloader left us in 32-bit mode and when bootloader enabled long mode. The patch implements unified codepath to enabled 5-level paging for both cases. It means case when we start in 32-bit mode, we first enable long mode with 4-level and then switch over to 5-level paging. Switching from 4-level to 5-level paging is not trivial. We cannot do it directly. Setting LA57 in long mode would trigger #GP. So we need to switch off long mode first and the then re-enable with 5-level paging. NOTE: The need of switching off long mode means we are in trouble if bootloader put us above 4G boundary. If bootloader wants to boot 5-level paging kernel, it has to put kernel below 4G or enable 5-level paging on it's own, so we could avoid the step. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170606113133.22974-7-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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