if (!p4d)
goto failed;
- /*
- * With 5-level paging the P4D level is not folded. So the PGDs
- * are now populated and there is no need to walk down to the
- * PUD level.
- */
if (pgtable_l5_enabled())
continue;
+ /*
+ * The goal here is to allocate all possibly required
+ * hardware page tables pointed to by the top hardware
+ * level.
+ *
+ * On 4-level systems, the P4D layer is folded away and
+ * the above code does no preallocation. Below, go down
+ * to the pud _software_ level to ensure the second
+ * hardware level is allocated on 4-level systems too.
+ */
lvl = "pud";
pud = pud_alloc(&init_mm, p4d, addr);
if (!pud)