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 <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180518103528.59260-5-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt 3 additions, 0 deletionsDocumentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
- arch/x86/boot/compressed/cmdline.c 1 addition, 1 deletionarch/x86/boot/compressed/cmdline.c
- arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S 1 addition, 0 deletionsarch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
- arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c 10 additions, 2 deletionsarch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c
- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c 15 additions, 0 deletionsarch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
- arch/x86/kernel/head64.c 5 additions, 4 deletionsarch/x86/kernel/head64.c
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