[PATCHv2 1/7] x86/cpufeature: Add 5-level paging detection

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Thu Mar 09 2017 - 09:25:59 EST


Look for 'la57' in /proc/cpuinfo to see if your machine supports 5-level
paging.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
index 4e7772387c6e..b04bb6dfed7f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
@@ -289,7 +289,8 @@
#define X86_FEATURE_PKU (16*32+ 3) /* Protection Keys for Userspace */
#define X86_FEATURE_OSPKE (16*32+ 4) /* OS Protection Keys Enable */
#define X86_FEATURE_AVX512_VPOPCNTDQ (16*32+14) /* POPCNT for vectors of DW/QW */
-#define X86_FEATURE_RDPID (16*32+ 22) /* RDPID instruction */
+#define X86_FEATURE_LA57 (16*32+16) /* 5-level page tables */
+#define X86_FEATURE_RDPID (16*32+22) /* RDPID instruction */

/* AMD-defined CPU features, CPUID level 0x80000007 (ebx), word 17 */
#define X86_FEATURE_OVERFLOW_RECOV (17*32+0) /* MCA overflow recovery support */
--
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