From aca91bfc67fe356544eb1cfc483c09b27ce49fa9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Borislav Petkov Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 21:16:18 +0100 Subject: x86-64, docs, mm: Add vsyscall range to virtual address space layout Add the end of the virtual address space to its layout documentation. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1362428180-8865-4-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/x86') diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt index d6498e3cd713..881582f75c9c 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt @@ -13,7 +13,9 @@ ffffe90000000000 - ffffe9ffffffffff (=40 bits) hole ffffea0000000000 - ffffeaffffffffff (=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 +ffffffffa0000000 - ffffffffff5fffff (=1525 MB) module mapping space +ffffffffff600000 - ffffffffffdfffff (=8 MB) vsyscalls +ffffffffffe00000 - ffffffffffffffff (=2 MB) unused hole 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 -- cgit v1.2.3 From 147ea09119e45caf2e8bf57c9e54cc930ccfeda9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Hansen Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:03:38 -0700 Subject: x86, early-printk: Update earlyprintk documentation (and kill x86 copy) Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt contain virtually identical text describing earlyprintk. This consolidates the two copies and updates the documentation a bit. No one ever documented the: earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 syntax, nor mentioned that ARM is now a supported earlyprintk arch. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Cc: Rob Landley Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Dave Hansen Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130410210338.E2930E98@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++-- Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt | 14 -------------- 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/x86') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 4609e81dbc37..b5cfd047becb 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -757,19 +757,31 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. (mmio) or 32-bit (mmio32). The options are the same as for ttyS, above. - earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN] + earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM] earlyprintk=vga earlyprintk=xen earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] + earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] + earlyprintk is useful when the kernel crashes before + the normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by + default because it has some cosmetic problems. + Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console takes over. Only vga or serial or usb debug port at a time. - Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 are supported. + Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 may be specified by + name. Other I/O ports may be explicitly specified + on some architectures (x86 and arm at least) by + replacing ttySn with an I/O port address, like this: + earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 + You can find the port for a given device in + /proc/tty/driver/serial: + 2: uart:ST16650V2 port:00001008 irq:18 ... Interaction with the standard serial driver is not very good. diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt index e015a83c3996..e9e8ddbbf376 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt @@ -91,20 +91,6 @@ APICs apicmaintimer. Useful when your PIT timer is totally broken. -Early Console - - syntax: earlyprintk=vga - earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] - - The early console is useful when the kernel crashes before the - normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by - default because it has some cosmetic problems. - Append ,keep to not disable it when the real console takes over. - Only vga or serial at a time, not both. - Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 are supported. - Interaction with the standard serial driver is not very good. - The VGA output is eventually overwritten by the real console. - Timing notsc -- cgit v1.2.3