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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-11-14 19:56:02 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-11-14 19:56:02 -0800 |
| commit | 4060994c3e337b40e0f6fa8ce2cc178e021baf3d (patch) | |
| tree | 980297c1747ca89354bc879cc5d17903eacb19e2 /Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt | |
| parent | 0174f72f848dfe7dc7488799776303c81b181b16 (diff) | |
| parent | d3ee871e63d0a0c70413dc0aa5534b8d6cd6ec37 (diff) | |
Merge x86-64 update from Andi
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt')
| -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 662b73971a6..133561b9cb0 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. |