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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:
60000000000000000 - 00007fffffffffff (=47bits) user space, different per mm 60000000000000000 - 00007fffffffffff (=47bits) user space, different per mm
7hole caused by [48:63] sign extension 7hole caused by [48:63] sign extension
8ffff800000000000 - ffff80ffffffffff (=40bits) guard hole 8ffff800000000000 - ffff80ffffffffff (=40bits) guard hole
9ffff810000000000 - ffffc0ffffffffff (=46bits) direct mapping of phys. memory 9ffff810000000000 - ffffc0ffffffffff (=46bits) direct mapping of all phys. memory
10ffffc10000000000 - ffffc1ffffffffff (=40bits) hole 10ffffc10000000000 - ffffc1ffffffffff (=40bits) hole
11ffffc20000000000 - ffffe1ffffffffff (=45bits) vmalloc/ioremap space 11ffffc20000000000 - ffffe1ffffffffff (=45bits) vmalloc/ioremap space
12... unused hole ... 12... unused hole ...
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ ffffffff80000000 - ffffffff82800000 (=40MB) kernel text mapping, from phys 0
14... unused hole ... 14... unused hole ...
15ffffffff88000000 - fffffffffff00000 (=1919MB) module mapping space 15ffffffff88000000 - fffffffffff00000 (=1919MB) module mapping space
16 16
17The direct mapping covers all memory in the system upto the highest
18memory address (this means in some cases it can also include PCI memory
19holes)
20
17vmalloc space is lazily synchronized into the different PML4 pages of 21vmalloc space is lazily synchronized into the different PML4 pages of
18the processes using the page fault handler, with init_level4_pgt as 22the processes using the page fault handler, with init_level4_pgt as
19reference. 23reference.