On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:25:14AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > For boot-time switching between paging modes, we need to be able to
> > adjust size of physical address space at runtime.
> >
> > As part of making physical address space size variable, we have to make
> > X86_5LEVEL dependent on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. !SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
> > configuration doesn't work well with variable MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS.
> >
> > Affect on kernel image size:
> >
> > text data bss dec hex filename
> > 10710340 4880000 860160 16450500 fb03c4 vmlinux.before
> > 10710666 4880000 860160 16450826 fb050a vmlinux.after
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
> > arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64_types.h | 2 +-
> > arch/x86/include/asm/sparsemem.h | 9 ++-------
> > arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 5 ++---
> > 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> > index 6a15297140ff..f75723d62c25 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> > @@ -1403,6 +1403,7 @@ config X86_PAE
> > config X86_5LEVEL
> > bool "Enable 5-level page tables support"
> > depends on X86_64
> > + depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
>
> Adding a 'depends on' to random kernel internal implementational details, to
> support new hardware, sucks as an UI, as it will just randomly hide/show the new
> hardware option if certain magic Kconfig combinations are set.
>
> Please check how other architectures are doing it. (Hint: they are using select.)
>
> Also, what is the real dependency here? Why don't the other memory models work,
> what's the failure mode - won't build, won't boot, or misbehaves in some other
> way?
I won't build.
For !SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP SECTIONS_WIDTH depends on MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS:
SECTIONS_WIDTH
SECTIONS_SHIFT
MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS
And SECTIONS_WIDTH is used on per-processor stage, it doesn't work if it's
dyncamic. See include/linux/page-flags-layout.h.
--
Kirill A. Shutemov
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