From 8315eca25583c369e28f48909d3341dc21d6214d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andi Kleen Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 17:25:54 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] x86_64: Some clarifications for Documention/x86_64/mm.txt I got some questions on this, so just fix up the documentation. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt b/Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt index 662b73971a67..133561b9cb0c 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Virtual memory map with 4 level page tables: 0000000000000000 - 00007fffffffffff (=47bits) user space, different per mm hole caused by [48:63] sign extension ffff800000000000 - ffff80ffffffffff (=40bits) guard hole -ffff810000000000 - ffffc0ffffffffff (=46bits) direct mapping of phys. memory +ffff810000000000 - ffffc0ffffffffff (=46bits) direct mapping of all phys. memory ffffc10000000000 - ffffc1ffffffffff (=40bits) hole ffffc20000000000 - ffffe1ffffffffff (=45bits) vmalloc/ioremap space ... unused hole ... @@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ ffffffff80000000 - ffffffff82800000 (=40MB) kernel text mapping, from phys 0 ... unused hole ... ffffffff88000000 - fffffffffff00000 (=1919MB) module mapping space +The direct mapping covers all memory in the system upto 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. -- cgit v1.2.3