Re: [tip:x86/mm] x86/boot/compressed/64: Describe the logic behind the LA57 check

Cyrill Gorcunov
2018-03-12T14:52:27Z

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 03:32:12PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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> * Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> wrote:
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> > > We can of course bike shed / benchmark this once my desktop refresh
> > > sports this feature, but ISTR this being one of the very first things
> > > Ingo mentioned when we started this whole 5L thing.
> >
> > I would rather not fix the problem that may not actually exist. :)
>
> That 5 level pagetables involve more overhead is a realy problem.
>
> By default we should only enable 5-level paging if memory mappings exist in
> the memory map that require the extended physical memory space.

Does it mean that if a machine supports 5lvl but has phisycal memory
installed fitting the 4lvl space, and has memory hotplug supported,
adding more memory won't have effect until next reboot?