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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2013-11-26 12:23:04 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2013-11-26 12:23:04 +0100 |
| commit | 61d066977583803d333f1e7266b8ba772162dda4 (patch) | |
| tree | 087d56e401422f1a8a165a782216aa6d0291a60e /Documentation/x86 | |
| parent | b975dc3689fc6a3718ad288ce080924f9cb7e176 (diff) | |
| parent | ee41143027706d9f342dfe05487a00b20887fde7 (diff) | |
Merge tag 'efi-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi into x86/efi
Pull EFI virtual mapping changes from Matt Fleming:
* New static EFI runtime services virtual mapping layout which is
groundwork for kexec support on EFI. (Borislav Petkov)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/x86')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt index 881582f75c9..c584a51add1 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt @@ -28,4 +28,11 @@ 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. +->trampoline_pgd: + +We map EFI runtime services in the aforementioned PGD in the virtual +range of 64Gb (arbitrarily set, can be raised if needed) + +0xffffffef00000000 - 0xffffffff00000000 + -Andi Kleen, Jul 2004 |