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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt index c518dce7da4d..5aa738346062 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ ffffff0000000000 - ffffff7fffffffff (=39 bits) %esp fixup stacks ffffffef00000000 - ffffffff00000000 (=64 GB) EFI region mapping space ... unused hole ... ffffffff80000000 - ffffffffa0000000 (=512 MB) kernel text mapping, from phys 0 -ffffffffa0000000 - ffffffffff5fffff (=1525 MB) module mapping space +ffffffffa0000000 - ffffffffff5fffff (=1526 MB) module mapping space ffffffffff600000 - ffffffffffdfffff (=8 MB) vsyscalls ffffffffffe00000 - ffffffffffffffff (=2 MB) unused hole @@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ 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 bits of address space, -but we support up to 46 bits. This expands into MBZ space in the page tables. +Current X86-64 implementations support up to 46 bits of address space (64 TB), +which is our current limit. This expands into MBZ space in the page tables. We map EFI runtime services in the 'efi_pgd' PGD in a 64Gb large virtual memory window (this size is arbitrary, it can be raised later if needed). |