On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 12:33:08AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Right, this is the same issue as in #11 - in both cases, the extern
> declaration of __pgtable_l5_enabled needs to be visible regardless of
> CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL.
Yap, I don't mind something like below.
5LEVEL will be practically enabled everywhere.
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
index 158da0fd01d2..eeb1744215f2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
@@ -52,13 +52,11 @@ extern pmd_t early_dynamic_pgts[EARLY_DYNAMIC_PAGE_TABLES][PTRS_PER_PMD];
static unsigned int __initdata next_early_pgt;
pmdval_t early_pmd_flags = __PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE & ~(_PAGE_GLOBAL | _PAGE_NX);
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL
unsigned int __pgtable_l5_enabled __ro_after_init;
unsigned int pgdir_shift __ro_after_init = 39;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(pgdir_shift);
unsigned int ptrs_per_p4d __ro_after_init = 1;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(ptrs_per_p4d);
-#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_MEMORY_LAYOUT
unsigned long page_offset_base __ro_after_init = __PAGE_OFFSET_BASE_L4;
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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