From 330c620030c555b847592a90686e140a4f5d9924 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andi Kleen Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 17:25:54 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 14199 b: refs/heads/master c: 8315eca25583c369e28f48909d3341dc21d6214d h: refs/heads/master i: 14197: 71aae413f1e9e83f988b68d7e16a89a2238e06a4 14195: 9639fe0ede4bd99024b514880f2a79b69c30b7c2 14191: 682956f00b5b26d9864b29fda4f09a544213008e v: v3 --- [refs] | 2 +- trunk/Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt | 6 +++++- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs] index de7785f5cdbe..b3638fac86f8 100644 --- a/[refs] +++ b/[refs] @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ --- -refs/heads/master: 59170891049cc469777a392e0b3f5aa7aad784a6 +refs/heads/master: 8315eca25583c369e28f48909d3341dc21d6214d diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt b/trunk/Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt index 662b73971a67..133561b9cb0c 100644 --- a/trunk/Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt +++ b/trunk/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.