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| author | Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> | 2017-12-05 13:34:54 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2017-12-22 20:13:02 +0100 |
| commit | e8ffe96e5933d417195268478479933d56213a3f (patch) | |
| tree | 2f9e031295f56b1f963469f01d6e1299319b3380 | |
| parent | 5a7ccf4754fb3660569a6de52ba7f7fc3dfaf280 (diff) | |
x86/doc: Remove obvious weirdnesses from the x86 MM layout documentation
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: David Laight <[email protected]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: Eduardo Valentin <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg KH <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Cc: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt index 83ca5a3b90ac..63a41671d25b 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt @@ -1,6 +1,4 @@ -<previous description obsolete, deleted> - Virtual memory map with 4 level page tables: 0000000000000000 - 00007fffffffffff (=47 bits) user space, different per mm @@ -49,8 +47,9 @@ ffffffffffe00000 - ffffffffffffffff (=2 MB) unused hole Architecture defines a 64-bit virtual address. Implementations can support less. Currently supported are 48- and 57-bit virtual addresses. Bits 63 -through to the most-significant implemented bit are set to either all ones -or all zero. This causes hole between user space and kernel addresses. +through to the most-significant implemented bit are sign extended. +This causes hole between user space and kernel addresses if you interpret them +as unsigned. The direct mapping covers all memory in the system up to the highest memory address (this means in some cases it can also include PCI memory @@ -60,9 +59,6 @@ vmalloc space is lazily synchronized into the different PML4/PML5 pages of the processes using the page fault handler, with init_top_pgt as reference. -Current X86-64 implementations support up to 46 bits of address space (64 TB), -which is our current limit. This expands into MBZ space in the page tables. - We map EFI runtime services in the 'efi_pgd' PGD in a 64Gb large virtual memory window (this size is arbitrary, it can be raised later if needed). The mappings are not part of any other kernel PGD and are only available @@ -74,5 +70,3 @@ following fixmap section. Note that if CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY is enabled, the direct mapping of all physical memory, vmalloc/ioremap space and virtual memory map are randomized. Their order is preserved but their base will be offset early at boot time. - --Andi Kleen, Jul 2004 |