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From: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mchehab+samsung@kernel.org,
	Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 24/27] Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/5level-paging.txt to reST
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 23:31:47 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190426153150.21228-25-changbin.du@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190426153150.21228-1-changbin.du@gmail.com>

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@gmail.com>
---
 .../{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
-- 
2.20.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-04-26 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-26 15:31 [PATCH 00/27] Include linux x86 docs into Sphinx TOC tree Changbin Du
2019-04-26 15:31 ` [PATCH 01/27] Documentation: add Linux x86 docs to " Changbin Du
2019-04-26 16:16   ` Borislav Petkov
2019-04-27  2:43     ` Changbin Du
2019-04-26 15:31 ` [PATCH 02/27] Documentation: x86: convert boot.txt to reST Changbin Du
2019-04-27 14:31   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-05-02  6:59     ` Changbin Du
2019-04-26 15:31 ` [PATCH 03/27] Documentation: x86: convert topology.txt " Changbin Du
2019-04-27 14:41   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-04-26 15:31 ` [PATCH 04/27] Documentation: x86: convert exception-tables.txt " Changbin Du
2019-04-27 14:48   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-05-02  3:19     ` Changbin Du
2019-04-26 15:31 ` [PATCH 05/27] Documentation: x86: convert kernel-stacks " Changbin Du
2019-04-27 14:50   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-04-26 15:31 ` [PATCH 06/27] Documentation: x86: convert entry_64.txt " Changbin Du
2019-04-27 14:52   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-04-26 15:31 ` [PATCH 07/27] Documentation: x86: convert earlyprintk.txt " Changbin Du
2019-04-27 17:17   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-05-02  3:27     ` Changbin Du
2019-04-26 15:31 ` [PATCH 08/27] Documentation: x86: convert zero-page.txt " Changbin Du
2019-04-27 17:19   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-04-26 15:31 ` [PATCH 09/27] Documentation: x86: convert tlb.txt " Changbin Du
2019-04-27 17:21   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-04-26 15:31 ` [PATCH 10/27] Documentation: x86: convert mtrr.txt " Changbin Du
2019-04-27 17:32   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-04-27 18:10     ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-05-02  5:03     ` Changbin Du
2019-04-26 15:31 ` [PATCH 11/27] Documentation: x86: convert pat.txt " Changbin Du
2019-04-27 17:51   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-05-02  5:25     ` Changbin Du
2019-04-26 15:31 ` [PATCH 12/27] Documentation: x86: convert protection-keys.txt " Changbin Du
2019-04-27 17:53   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-04-26 15:31 ` [PATCH 13/27] Documentation: x86: convert intel_mpx.txt " Changbin Du
2019-04-27 17:54   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-04-26 15:31 ` [PATCH 14/27] Documentation: x86: convert amd-memory-encryption.txt " Changbin Du
2019-04-27 17:55   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-04-26 15:31 ` [PATCH 15/27] Documentation: x86: convert pti.txt " Changbin Du
2019-04-27 17:57   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-04-26 15:31 ` [PATCH 16/27] Documentation: x86: convert microcode.txt " Changbin Du
2019-04-27 17:58   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-04-26 15:31 ` [PATCH 17/27] Documentation: x86: convert resctrl_ui.txt " Changbin Du
2019-04-27 18:09   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-05-02  5:37     ` Changbin Du
2019-04-26 15:31 ` [PATCH 18/27] Documentation: x86: convert orc-unwinder.txt " Changbin Du
2019-04-27 18:16   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-04-26 15:31 ` [PATCH 19/27] Documentation: x86: convert usb-legacy-support.txt " Changbin Du
2019-04-27 18:20   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-04-26 15:31 ` [PATCH 20/27] Documentation: x86: convert i386/IO-APIC.txt " Changbin Du
2019-04-27 18:24   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-05-02  5:42     ` Changbin Du
2019-04-26 15:31 ` [PATCH 21/27] Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/boot-options.txt " Changbin Du
2019-04-27 18:30   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-05-02  5:49     ` Changbin Du
2019-04-26 15:31 ` [PATCH 22/27] Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/uefi.txt " Changbin Du
2019-04-27 18:31   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-04-26 15:31 ` [PATCH 23/27] Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/mm.txt " Changbin Du
2019-04-27 18:35   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-04-26 15:31 ` Changbin Du [this message]
2019-04-27 18:36   ` [PATCH 24/27] Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/5level-paging.txt " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-04-26 15:31 ` [PATCH 25/27] Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/fake-numa-for-cpusets " Changbin Du
2019-04-27 18:38   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-04-26 15:31 ` [PATCH 26/27] Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/cpu-hotplug-spec " Changbin Du
2019-04-27 18:40   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-04-26 15:31 ` [PATCH 27/27] Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/machinecheck " Changbin Du
2019-04-27 18:42   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-04-26 15:39 ` [PATCH 00/27] Include linux x86 docs into Sphinx TOC tree Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-04-27  2:47   ` Changbin Du
2019-04-27  9:54     ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab

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