Prerequisite for fixing the current problem of instantaneous reboots when a
5-level paging kernel is booted on 4-level paging hardware.
At the same time this change prepares the decompression code to boot-time
switching between 4- and 5-level paging.
[ tglx: Folded the GCC < 5 fix. ]
Fixes: 77ef56e4f0 ("x86: Enable 5-level paging support via CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y")
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204124059.63515-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
