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author | Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> | 2017-03-30 11:07:27 +0300 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2017-04-04 08:22:33 +0200 |
commit | 4c7c44837be77e2689c577abef155c4b5d873c82 (patch) | |
tree | c0b2b3e63d6c73766d8486fe80d1782928399f9a /Documentation/x86 | |
parent | 361b4b58ec4cf123e12a773909c6454dbd5e6dbc (diff) | |
download | linux-4c7c44837be77e2689c577abef155c4b5d873c82.tar.bz2 |
x86/mm: Define virtual memory map for 5-level paging
The first part of memory map (up to %esp fixup) simply scales existing
map for 4-level paging by factor of 9 -- number of bits addressed by
the additional page table level.
The rest of the map is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170330080731.65421-4-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/x86')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt | 33 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt index ee3f9c30957c..b0798e281aa6 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Virtual memory map with 4 level page tables: 0000000000000000 - 00007fffffffffff (=47 bits) user space, different per mm -hole caused by [48:63] sign extension +hole caused by [47:63] sign extension ffff800000000000 - ffff87ffffffffff (=43 bits) guard hole, reserved for hypervisor ffff880000000000 - ffffc7ffffffffff (=64 TB) direct mapping of all phys. memory ffffc80000000000 - ffffc8ffffffffff (=40 bits) hole @@ -23,12 +23,39 @@ ffffffffa0000000 - ffffffffff5fffff (=1526 MB) module mapping space (variable) ffffffffff600000 - ffffffffffdfffff (=8 MB) vsyscalls ffffffffffe00000 - ffffffffffffffff (=2 MB) unused hole +Virtual memory map with 5 level page tables: + +0000000000000000 - 00ffffffffffffff (=56 bits) user space, different per mm +hole caused by [56:63] sign extension +ff00000000000000 - ff0fffffffffffff (=52 bits) guard hole, reserved for hypervisor +ff10000000000000 - ff8fffffffffffff (=55 bits) direct mapping of all phys. memory +ff90000000000000 - ff91ffffffffffff (=49 bits) hole +ff92000000000000 - ffd1ffffffffffff (=54 bits) vmalloc/ioremap space +ffd2000000000000 - ffd3ffffffffffff (=49 bits) hole +ffd4000000000000 - ffd5ffffffffffff (=49 bits) virtual memory map (512TB) +... unused hole ... +ffd8000000000000 - fff7ffffffffffff (=53 bits) kasan shadow memory (8PB) +... unused hole ... +ffffff0000000000 - ffffff7fffffffff (=39 bits) %esp fixup stacks +... unused hole ... +ffffffef00000000 - fffffffeffffffff (=64 GB) EFI region mapping space +... unused hole ... +ffffffff80000000 - ffffffff9fffffff (=512 MB) kernel text mapping, from phys 0 +ffffffffa0000000 - ffffffffff5fffff (=1526 MB) module mapping space +ffffffffff600000 - ffffffffffdfffff (=8 MB) vsyscalls +ffffffffffe00000 - ffffffffffffffff (=2 MB) unused hole + +Architecture defines a 64-bit virtual address. Implementations can support +less. Currently supported are 48- and 57-bit virtual addresses. Bits 63 +through to the most-significant implemented bit are set to either all ones +or all zero. This causes hole between user space and kernel addresses. + 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). -vmalloc space is lazily synchronized into the different PML4 pages of -the processes using the page fault handler, with init_level4_pgt as +vmalloc space is lazily synchronized into the different PML4/PML5 pages of +the processes using the page fault handler, with init_top_pgt as reference. Current X86-64 implementations support up to 46 bits of address space (64 TB), |