On Wed, May 11 2022 at 05:27, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > LAM_U48 steals bits above 47-bit for tags and makes it impossible for > userspace to use full address space on 5-level paging machine. > Make these features mutually exclusive: whichever gets enabled first > blocks the othe one. So this patch prevents a mapping above 47bit when LAM48 is enabled, but I fail to spot how an already existing mapping above 47bit would prevent LAM48 from being enabled. Maybe I'm missing something which makes this magically mutually exclusive. Thanks, tglx