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| author | Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> | 2019-05-08 18:21:38 +0300 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2019-05-08 23:34:11 +0300 |
| commit | 85a3bd41cd680aacf0b88e78bbfcfb5bc13292ff (patch) | |
| tree | efb9babcdf08db7720b03d3c7a92f3034280c9cc /Documentation/x86/x86_64 | |
| parent | b88679d2f2b9e18618308bbe6d70a1fc91b6a35a (diff) | |
| download | linux-85a3bd41cd680aacf0b88e78bbfcfb5bc13292ff.tar.xz | |
Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/5level-paging.txt to reST
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/x86/x86_64')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.rst (renamed from Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.txt) | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst | 1 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.rst index 2432a5ef86d9..ab88a4514163 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.rst @@ -1,5 +1,11 @@ -== Overview == +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +============== +5-level paging +============== + +Overview +======== Original x86-64 was limited by 4-level paing to 256 TiB of virtual address space and 64 TiB of physical address space. We are already bumping into this limit: some vendors offers servers with 64 TiB of memory today. @@ -16,16 +22,17 @@ QEMU 2.9 and later support 5-level paging. Virtual memory layout for 5-level paging is described in Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt -== Enabling 5-level paging == +Enabling 5-level paging +======================= CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y enables the feature. Kernel with CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y still able to boot on 4-level hardware. In this case additional page table level -- p4d -- will be folded at runtime. -== User-space and large virtual address space == - +User-space and large virtual address space +========================================== On x86, 5-level paging enables 56-bit userspace virtual address space. Not all user space is ready to handle wide addresses. It's known that at least some JIT compilers use higher bits in pointers to encode their @@ -58,4 +65,3 @@ One important case we need to handle here is interaction with MPX. MPX (without MAWA extension) cannot handle addresses above 47-bit, so we need to make sure that MPX cannot be enabled we already have VMA above the boundary and forbid creating such VMAs once MPX is enabled. - diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst index 4b65d29ef459..7b8c82151358 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst @@ -10,3 +10,4 @@ x86_64 Support boot-options uefi mm + 5level-paging |