Re: [PATCH 2/3] sparc64: 5-Level page table support for sparc

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From: Allen Pais <allen.pais@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 13:10:36 +0530

> From: Vijay Kumar <vijay.ac.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Added 5-Level paging for sparc.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vijay Kumar <vijay.ac.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Allen Pais <allen.pais@xxxxxxxxxx>

So for one chip, we're going to unconditonally eat an entire
level of page table traversal on every PTE lookup?

Either stick to what 4-level page tables support for M8 or
make it run time selectable.

Thanks.
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