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5-level paging not available even though the CPU supports it (hypervisor interference?)

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Intel Ice Lake processor support 5-level page tables to allow more address space.

I have found this is enabled on c6i.metal but not c6i.large or any others. Same AMI (Linux, tried latest RHEL and Ubuntu). In Linux this is visible in /proc/cpuinfo.

I speculate that the hypervisor is getting in the way, but I have no real evidence.

What is the cheapest possible instance that supports 5-level page tables?

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Compute
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Amazon EC2
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English
undo_isa
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