Re: [PATCHv2 3/3] x86/64/mm: Make 5-level paging support unconditional

["Jürgen Groß" <jgross@suse.com>]

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On 16.05.25 13:09, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 12:42:21PM +0200, Jürgen Groß wrote:
>> On 16.05.25 11:15, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>>> Both Intel and AMD CPUs support 5-level paging, which is expected to
>>> become more widely adopted in the future.
>>>
>>> Remove CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL and ifdeffery for it to make it more readable.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
>>> Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
>>> ---
>>>    Documentation/arch/x86/cpuinfo.rst            |  8 +++----
>>>    .../arch/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.rst         |  9 --------
>>>    arch/x86/Kconfig                              | 22 +------------------
>>>    arch/x86/Kconfig.cpufeatures                  |  4 ----
>>>    arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c         | 11 ++--------
>>>    arch/x86/boot/header.S                        |  4 ----
>>>    arch/x86/boot/startup/map_kernel.c            |  5 +----
>>>    arch/x86/include/asm/page_64.h                |  2 --
>>>    arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h          |  7 ------
>>>    arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64_types.h       | 18 ---------------
>>>    arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c                 |  2 +-
>>>    arch/x86/kernel/head64.c                      |  2 --
>>>    arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S                     |  2 --
>>>    arch/x86/mm/init.c                            |  4 ----
>>>    arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c                         |  2 +-
>>>    drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/x86-5lvl.c       |  2 +-
>>>    16 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-)
>>
>> There are some instances of:
>>
>> #if CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS >= 5
>>
>> in 64-bit-only code under arch/x86, which could be simplified, too.
>>
>> They are still correct, but I wanted to hint at further code removals
>> being possible.
> 
> Okay, fair enough. Fixup is below.
> 
> Did I miss anything else?

Yes.

One more instance in arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c,
one in arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h,
one in arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h,
one in arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c


Juergen

> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c b/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c
> index 2fb7d53cf333..c9103a6fa06e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c
> @@ -341,9 +341,7 @@ void __init set_vsyscall_pgtable_user_bits(pgd_t *root)
>   	pgd = pgd_offset_pgd(root, VSYSCALL_ADDR);
>   	set_pgd(pgd, __pgd(pgd_val(*pgd) | _PAGE_USER));
>   	p4d = p4d_offset(pgd, VSYSCALL_ADDR);
> -#if CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS >= 5
>   	set_p4d(p4d, __p4d(p4d_val(*p4d) | _PAGE_USER));
> -#endif
>   	pud = pud_offset(p4d, VSYSCALL_ADDR);
>   	set_pud(pud, __pud(pud_val(*pud) | _PAGE_USER));
>   	pmd = pmd_offset(pud, VSYSCALL_ADDR);
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64.h
> index b89f8f1194a9..f06e5d6a2747 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64.h
> @@ -41,11 +41,9 @@ static inline void sync_initial_page_table(void) { }
>   	pr_err("%s:%d: bad pud %p(%016lx)\n",		\
>   	       __FILE__, __LINE__, &(e), pud_val(e))
>   
> -#if CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS >= 5
>   #define p4d_ERROR(e)					\
>   	pr_err("%s:%d: bad p4d %p(%016lx)\n",		\
>   	       __FILE__, __LINE__, &(e), p4d_val(e))
> -#endif
>   
>   #define pgd_ERROR(e)					\
>   	pr_err("%s:%d: bad pgd %p(%016lx)\n",		\
> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c b/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c
> index 38971c6dcd4b..61c52bb80e33 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c
> @@ -578,7 +578,6 @@ static void xen_set_p4d(p4d_t *ptr, p4d_t val)
>   	xen_mc_issue(XEN_LAZY_MMU);
>   }
>   
> -#if CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS >= 5
>   __visible p4dval_t xen_p4d_val(p4d_t p4d)
>   {
>   	return pte_mfn_to_pfn(p4d.p4d);
> @@ -592,7 +591,6 @@ __visible p4d_t xen_make_p4d(p4dval_t p4d)
>   	return native_make_p4d(p4d);
>   }
>   PV_CALLEE_SAVE_REGS_THUNK(xen_make_p4d);
> -#endif  /* CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS >= 5 */
>   
>   static void xen_pmd_walk(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd,
>   			 void (*func)(struct mm_struct *mm, struct page *,


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