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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-08 03:43:01 -0400 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-08 03:43:01 -0400 |
commit | 3c1ca43fafea41e38cb2d0c1684119af4c1de547 (patch) | |
tree | 122e41a7b9fca26ea25ea9864180f5016274a8c8 /Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt | |
parent | 6924d1ab8b7bbe5ab416713f5701b3316b2df85b (diff) | |
parent | 6bcb13b35a2ea39be6c7cc0292b8ad1191b1a748 (diff) |
Merge branch 'x86/setup' into x86/devel
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2 | <previous description obsolete, deleted> | ||
3 | |||
4 | Virtual memory map with 4 level page tables: | ||
5 | |||
6 | 0000000000000000 - 00007fffffffffff (=47 bits) user space, different per mm | ||
7 | hole caused by [48:63] sign extension | ||
8 | ffff800000000000 - ffff80ffffffffff (=40 bits) guard hole | ||
9 | ffff810000000000 - ffffc0ffffffffff (=46 bits) direct mapping of all phys. memory | ||
10 | ffffc10000000000 - ffffc1ffffffffff (=40 bits) hole | ||
11 | ffffc20000000000 - ffffe1ffffffffff (=45 bits) vmalloc/ioremap space | ||
12 | ffffe20000000000 - ffffe2ffffffffff (=40 bits) virtual memory map (1TB) | ||
13 | ... unused hole ... | ||
14 | ffffffff80000000 - ffffffffa0000000 (=512 MB) kernel text mapping, from phys 0 | ||
15 | ffffffffa0000000 - fffffffffff00000 (=1536 MB) module mapping space | ||
16 | |||
17 | The direct mapping covers all memory in the system up to the highest | ||
18 | memory address (this means in some cases it can also include PCI memory | ||
19 | holes). | ||
20 | |||
21 | vmalloc space is lazily synchronized into the different PML4 pages of | ||
22 | the processes using the page fault handler, with init_level4_pgt as | ||
23 | reference. | ||
24 | |||
25 | Current X86-64 implementations only support 40 bits of address space, | ||
26 | but we support up to 46 bits. This expands into MBZ space in the page tables. | ||
27 | |||
28 | -Andi Kleen, Jul 2004 | ||