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In order for the page table level 5 to be in use, the CPU must have the setting enabled in addition to the CONFIG option. Check for the flag to be set to avoid false test failures on systems that do not have this cpu flag set. The test does a series of mmap calls including three using the MAP_FIXED flag and specifying an address that is 1<<47 or 1<<48. These addresses are only available if you are using level 5 page tables, which requires both the CPU to have the capabiltiy (la57 flag) and the kernel to be configured. Currently the test only checks for the kernel configuration option, so this test can still report a false positive. Here are the three failing lines: $ ./va_high_addr_switch | grep FAILED mmap(ADDR_SWITCH_HINT, 2 * PAGE_SIZE, MAP_FIXED): 0xffffffffffffffff - FAILED mmap(HIGH_ADDR, MAP_FIXED): 0xffffffffffffffff - FAILED mmap(ADDR_SWITCH_HINT, 2 * PAGE_SIZE, MAP_FIXED): 0xffffffffffffffff - FAILED I thought (for about a second) refactoring the test so that these three mmap calls will only be run on systems with the level 5 page tables available, but the whole point of the test is to check the level 5 feature... Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240119205801.62769-1-audra@redhat.com Fixes: 4f2930c6718a ("selftests/vm: only run 128TBswitch with 5-level paging") Signed-off-by: Audra Mitchell <audra@redhat.com> Cc: Rafael Aquini <raquini@redhat.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Adam Sindelar <adam@wowsignal.io> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.