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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-04-22 10:12:19 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-04-22 10:13:53 +0200
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Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/asm, to fix semantic conflict
'cpu_has_pse' has changed to boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PSE), fix this up in the merge commit when merging the x86/urgent tree that includes the following commit: 103f6112f253 ("x86/mm/xen: Suppress hugetlbfs in PV guests") Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt
index c518dce7da4d..5aa738346062 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ ffffff0000000000 - ffffff7fffffffff (=39 bits) %esp fixup stacks
ffffffef00000000 - ffffffff00000000 (=64 GB) EFI region mapping space
... unused hole ...
ffffffff80000000 - ffffffffa0000000 (=512 MB) kernel text mapping, from phys 0
-ffffffffa0000000 - ffffffffff5fffff (=1525 MB) module mapping space
+ffffffffa0000000 - ffffffffff5fffff (=1526 MB) module mapping space
ffffffffff600000 - ffffffffffdfffff (=8 MB) vsyscalls
ffffffffffe00000 - ffffffffffffffff (=2 MB) unused hole
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ vmalloc space is lazily synchronized into the different PML4 pages of
the processes using the page fault handler, with init_level4_pgt as
reference.
-Current X86-64 implementations only support 40 bits of address space,
-but we support up to 46 bits. This expands into MBZ space in the page tables.
+Current X86-64 implementations support up to 46 bits of address space (64 TB),
+which is our current limit. This expands into MBZ space in the page tables.
We map EFI runtime services in the 'efi_pgd' PGD in a 64Gb large virtual
memory window (this size is arbitrary, it can be raised later if needed).