[PATCH] x86_64: Add a guard page at the end of the 47bit address space

This works around a bug in the AMD K8 CPUs. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
git-mirror · May 17, 2005 · 637716a · 637716a
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diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/processor.h b/include/asm-x86_64/processor.h
@@ -159,9 +159,9 @@ static inline void clear_in_cr4 (unsigned long mask)
 
 
 /*
- * User space process size. 47bits.
+ * User space process size. 47bits minus one guard page.
  */
-#define TASK_SIZE	(0x800000000000UL)
+#define TASK_SIZE	(0x800000000000UL - 4096)
 
 /* This decides where the kernel will search for a free chunk of vm
  * space during mmap's.