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    Merge branch 'prep-for-5level' · baeedc71
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Merge 5-level page table prep from Kirill Shutemov:
     "Here's relatively low-risk part of 5-level paging patchset. Merging it
      now will make x86 5-level paging enabling in v4.12 easier.
    
      The first patch is actually x86-specific: detect 5-level paging
      support. It boils down to single define.
    
      The rest of patchset converts Linux MMU abstraction from 4- to 5-level
      paging.
    
      Enabling of new abstraction in most cases requires adding single line
      of code in arch-specific code. The rest is taken care by asm-generic/.
    
      Changes to mm/ code are mostly mechanical: add support for new page
      table level -- p4d_t -- where we deal with pud_t now.
    
      v2:
       - fix build on microblaze (Michal);
       - comment for __ARCH_HAS_5LEVEL_HACK in kasan_populate_zero_shadow();
       - acks from Michal"
    
    * emailed patches from Kirill A Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>:
      mm: introduce __p4d_alloc()
      mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging
      asm-generic: introduce <asm-generic/pgtable-nop4d.h>
      arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h
      asm-generic: introduce __ARCH_USE_5LEVEL_HACK
      asm-generic: introduce 5level-fixup.h
      x86/cpufeature: Add 5-level paging detection
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