Re: [PATCH 24/27] Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/5level-paging.txt to reST

From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Date: Sat Apr 27 2019 - 14:36:20 EST


Em Fri, 26 Apr 2019 23:31:47 +0800
Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

> This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
> add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
>
> Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> .../{5level-paging.txt => 5level-paging.rst} | 16 +++++++++++-----
> Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> rename Documentation/x86/x86_64/{5level-paging.txt => 5level-paging.rst} (91%)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.rst
> similarity index 91%
> rename from Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.txt
> rename to Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.rst
> index 2432a5ef86d9..ab88a4514163 100644
> --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.rst
> @@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
> -== Overview ==
> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>
> +==============
> +5-level paging
> +==============
> +
> +Overview
> +========
> Original x86-64 was limited by 4-level paing to 256 TiB of virtual address
> space and 64 TiB of physical address space. We are already bumping into
> this limit: some vendors offers servers with 64 TiB of memory today.
> @@ -16,16 +22,17 @@ QEMU 2.9 and later support 5-level paging.
> Virtual memory layout for 5-level paging is described in
> Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt
>
> -== Enabling 5-level paging ==
>
> +Enabling 5-level paging
> +=======================
> CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y enables the feature.
>
> Kernel with CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y still able to boot on 4-level hardware.
> In this case additional page table level -- p4d -- will be folded at
> runtime.
>
> -== User-space and large virtual address space ==
> -
> +User-space and large virtual address space
> +==========================================
> On x86, 5-level paging enables 56-bit userspace virtual address space.
> Not all user space is ready to handle wide addresses. It's known that
> at least some JIT compilers use higher bits in pointers to encode their
> @@ -58,4 +65,3 @@ One important case we need to handle here is interaction with MPX.
> MPX (without MAWA extension) cannot handle addresses above 47-bit, so we
> need to make sure that MPX cannot be enabled we already have VMA above
> the boundary and forbid creating such VMAs once MPX is enabled.
> -
> diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst
> index 4b65d29ef459..7b8c82151358 100644
> --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst
> @@ -10,3 +10,4 @@ x86_64 Support
> boot-options
> uefi
> mm
> + 5level-paging



Thanks,
Mauro