Re: [PATCH v2] xen: support 52 bit physical addresses in pv guests

[Boris Ostrovsky]

On 10/27/2017 01:49 PM, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Physical addresses on processors supporting 5 level paging can be up to
> 52 bits wide. For a Xen pv guest running on such a machine those
> physical addresses have to be supported in order to be able to use any
> memory on the machine even if the guest itself does not support 5 level
> paging.
>
> So when reading/writing a MFN from/to a pte don't use the kernel's
> PTE_PFN_MASK but a new XEN_PTE_MFN_MASK allowing full 40 bit wide MFNs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>


Applied to for-linus-4.15

-boris