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authorAndy Lutomirski <[email protected]>2017-12-12 07:56:43 -0800
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>2017-12-22 20:13:02 +0100
commit5a7ccf4754fb3660569a6de52ba7f7fc3dfaf280 (patch)
tree83bc6f35bae69aca65f2095a25aba07d2341ab2f
parenta4828f81037f491b2cc986595e3a969a6eeb2fb5 (diff)
x86/mm/64: Improve the memory map documentation
The old docs had the vsyscall range wrong and were missing the fixmap. Fix both. There used to be 8 MB reserved for future vsyscalls, but that's long gone. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]> Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]> Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]> Cc: David Laight <[email protected]> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]> Cc: Juergen Gross <[email protected]> Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt
index 3448e675b462..83ca5a3b90ac 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt
@@ -19,8 +19,9 @@ ffffff0000000000 - ffffff7fffffffff (=39 bits) %esp fixup stacks
ffffffef00000000 - fffffffeffffffff (=64 GB) EFI region mapping space
... unused hole ...
ffffffff80000000 - ffffffff9fffffff (=512 MB) kernel text mapping, from phys 0
-ffffffffa0000000 - ffffffffff5fffff (=1526 MB) module mapping space (variable)
-ffffffffff600000 - ffffffffffdfffff (=8 MB) vsyscalls
+ffffffffa0000000 - [fixmap start] (~1526 MB) module mapping space (variable)
+[fixmap start] - ffffffffff5fffff kernel-internal fixmap range
+ffffffffff600000 - ffffffffff600fff (=4 kB) legacy vsyscall ABI
ffffffffffe00000 - ffffffffffffffff (=2 MB) unused hole
Virtual memory map with 5 level page tables:
@@ -41,8 +42,9 @@ ffffff0000000000 - ffffff7fffffffff (=39 bits) %esp fixup stacks
ffffffef00000000 - fffffffeffffffff (=64 GB) EFI region mapping space
... unused hole ...
ffffffff80000000 - ffffffff9fffffff (=512 MB) kernel text mapping, from phys 0
-ffffffffa0000000 - ffffffffff5fffff (=1526 MB) module mapping space
-ffffffffff600000 - ffffffffffdfffff (=8 MB) vsyscalls
+ffffffffa0000000 - [fixmap start] (~1526 MB) module mapping space
+[fixmap start] - ffffffffff5fffff kernel-internal fixmap range
+ffffffffff600000 - ffffffffff600fff (=4 kB) legacy vsyscall ABI
ffffffffffe00000 - ffffffffffffffff (=2 MB) unused hole
Architecture defines a 64-bit virtual address. Implementations can support