Re: [PATCH] x86/boot/64: Initialize 5-level paging variables earlier

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 10:33:58AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 11:20:47AM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > With TCG or KVM? I use -machine "type=q35,accel=tcg".
> 
> Thx, that triggered it - it was KVM before.
> 
> Btw, are 5level boxes shipping already or not yet? Because I've not seen
> one yet. If you have access to the hw, I'd appreciate it if you could
> test Arvind's patch ontop of
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/log/?h=x86/seves
> 
> which does that early pagetable rework.

Yes, the patch helps to fix 5-level paging boot:

Tested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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 Kirill A. Shutemov