asm-generic: introduce 5level-fixup.h
authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Thu, 9 Mar 2017 14:24:03 +0000 (17:24 +0300)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 9 Mar 2017 19:48:47 +0000 (11:48 -0800)
commit505a60e225606fbd3d2eadc31ff793d939ba66f1
tree00eb708b2512cb3d49e6aff3606b6c8c83cd61f6
parent6fb895692a034393d58679cd8d00c9e229719a5f
asm-generic: introduce 5level-fixup.h

We are going to switch core MM to 5-level paging abstraction.

This is preparation step which adds <asm-generic/5level-fixup.h>
As with 4level-fixup.h, the new header allows quickly make all
architectures compatible with 5-level paging in core MM.

In long run we would like to switch architectures to properly folded p4d
level by using <asm-generic/pgtable-nop4d.h>, but it requires more
changes to arch-specific code.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/asm-generic/4level-fixup.h
include/asm-generic/5level-fixup.h [new file with mode: 0644]
include/linux/mm.h