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| author | Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> | 2005-11-05 17:25:54 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-11-14 19:55:15 -0800 |
| commit | 8315eca25583c369e28f48909d3341dc21d6214d (patch) | |
| tree | 271677ef4bb1159284c0920aabc903218868fc1f /Documentation | |
| parent | 59170891049cc469777a392e0b3f5aa7aad784a6 (diff) | |
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[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 <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
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. |