Both Intel and AMD CPUs support 5-level paging, which is expected to
become more widely adopted in the future. All major x86 Linux
distributions have the feature enabled.
Remove CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL and related #ifdeffery for it to make it more readable.
Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250516123306.3812286-4-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Required and disabled feature masks completely rely on build configs,
i.e., once a build config is fixed, so are the feature masks.
To prepare for auto-generating the <asm/cpufeaturemasks.h> header
with required and disabled feature masks based on a build config,
add feature Kconfig items:
- X86_REQUIRED_FEATURE_x
- X86_DISABLED_FEATURE_x
each of which may be set to "y" if and only if its preconditions from
current build config are met.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Xin Li (Intel) <xin@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250228082338.73859-3-xin@zytor.com