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author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-07-18 13:39:39 +0400 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-07-18 13:39:39 +0400 |
commit | 49997d75152b3d23c53b0fa730599f2f74c92c65 (patch) | |
tree | 46e93126170d02cfec9505172e545732c1b69656 /Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt | |
parent | a0c80b80e0fb48129e4e9d6a9ede914f9ff1850d (diff) | |
parent | 5b664cb235e97afbf34db9c4d77f08ebd725335e (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
drivers/atm/Makefile
drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c
net/8021q/vlan.c
net/iucv/iucv.c
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diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..efce75097369 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ + +<previous description obsolete, deleted> + +Virtual memory map with 4 level page tables: + +0000000000000000 - 00007fffffffffff (=47 bits) user space, different per mm +hole caused by [48:63] sign extension +ffff800000000000 - ffff80ffffffffff (=40 bits) guard hole +ffff810000000000 - ffffc0ffffffffff (=46 bits) direct mapping of all phys. memory +ffffc10000000000 - ffffc1ffffffffff (=40 bits) hole +ffffc20000000000 - ffffe1ffffffffff (=45 bits) vmalloc/ioremap space +ffffe20000000000 - ffffe2ffffffffff (=40 bits) virtual memory map (1TB) +... unused hole ... +ffffffff80000000 - ffffffffa0000000 (=512 MB) kernel text mapping, from phys 0 +ffffffffa0000000 - fffffffffff00000 (=1536 MB) module mapping space + +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 +holes). + +vmalloc space is lazily synchronized into the different PML4 pages of +the processes using the page fault handler, with init_level4_pgt as +reference. + +Current X86-64 implementations only support 40 bits of address space, +but we support up to 46 bits. This expands into MBZ space in the page tables. + +-Andi Kleen, Jul 2004 |