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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-02-14 09:46:06 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-02-14 09:46:06 -0800
commit414f827c46973ba39320cfb43feb55a0eeb9b4e8 (patch)
tree45e860974ef698e71370a0ebdddcff4f14fbdf9e /Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt
parent86a71dbd3e81e8870d0f0e56b87875f57e58222b (diff)
parent126b1922367fbe5513daa675a2abd13ed3917f4e (diff)
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (94 commits) [PATCH] x86-64: Remove mk_pte_phys() [PATCH] i386: Fix broken CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO on i386 [PATCH] i386: fix 32-bit ioctls on x64_32 [PATCH] x86: Unify pcspeaker platform device code between i386/x86-64 [PATCH] i386: Remove extern declaration from mm/discontig.c, put in header. [PATCH] i386: Rename cpu_gdt_descr and remove extern declaration from smpboot.c [PATCH] i386: Move mce_disabled to asm/mce.h [PATCH] i386: paravirt unhandled fallthrough [PATCH] x86_64: Wire up compat epoll_pwait [PATCH] x86: Don't require the vDSO for handling a.out signals [PATCH] i386: Fix Cyrix MediaGX detection [PATCH] i386: Fix warning in cpu initialization [PATCH] i386: Fix warning in microcode.c [PATCH] x86: Enable NMI watchdog for AMD Family 0x10 CPUs [PATCH] x86: Add new CPUID bits for AMD Family 10 CPUs in /proc/cpuinfo [PATCH] i386: Remove fastcall in paravirt.[ch] [PATCH] x86-64: Fix wrong gcc check in bitops.h [PATCH] x86-64: survive having no irq mapping for a vector [PATCH] i386: geode configuration fixes [PATCH] i386: add option to show more code in oops reports ...
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@@ -3,26 +3,26 @@
Virtual memory map with 4 level page tables:
-0000000000000000 - 00007fffffffffff (=47bits) user space, different per mm
+0000000000000000 - 00007fffffffffff (=47 bits) user space, different per mm
hole caused by [48:63] sign extension
-ffff800000000000 - ffff80ffffffffff (=40bits) guard hole
-ffff810000000000 - ffffc0ffffffffff (=46bits) direct mapping of all phys. memory
-ffffc10000000000 - ffffc1ffffffffff (=40bits) hole
-ffffc20000000000 - ffffe1ffffffffff (=45bits) vmalloc/ioremap space
+ffff800000000000 - ffff80ffffffffff (=40 bits) guard hole
+ffff810000000000 - ffffc0ffffffffff (=46 bits) direct mapping of all phys. memory
+ffffc10000000000 - ffffc1ffffffffff (=40 bits) hole
+ffffc20000000000 - ffffe1ffffffffff (=45 bits) vmalloc/ioremap space
... unused hole ...
-ffffffff80000000 - ffffffff82800000 (=40MB) kernel text mapping, from phys 0
+ffffffff80000000 - ffffffff82800000 (=40 MB) kernel text mapping, from phys 0
... unused hole ...
-ffffffff88000000 - fffffffffff00000 (=1919MB) module mapping space
+ffffffff88000000 - fffffffffff00000 (=1919 MB) module mapping space
-The direct mapping covers all memory in the system upto the highest
+The direct mapping covers all memory in the system up to the highest
memory address (this means in some cases it can also include PCI memory
-holes)
+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.
-Current X86-64 implementations only support 40 bit of address space,
-but we support upto 46bits. This expands into MBZ space in the page tables.
+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.
-Andi Kleen, Jul 2004