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Documentation: riscv: Add sv48 description to VM layout
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sv48 was just introduced, so add its virtual memory layout to the
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexandre.ghiti@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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Expand Up @@ -61,3 +61,39 @@ RISC-V Linux Kernel SV39
ffffffff00000000 | -4 GB | ffffffff7fffffff | 2 GB | modules, BPF
ffffffff80000000 | -2 GB | ffffffffffffffff | 2 GB | kernel
__________________|____________|__________________|_________|____________________________________________________________


RISC-V Linux Kernel SV48
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::

========================================================================================================================
Start addr | Offset | End addr | Size | VM area description
========================================================================================================================
| | | |
0000000000000000 | 0 | 00007fffffffffff | 128 TB | user-space virtual memory, different per mm
__________________|____________|__________________|_________|___________________________________________________________
| | | |
0000800000000000 | +128 TB | ffff7fffffffffff | ~16M TB | ... huge, almost 64 bits wide hole of non-canonical
| | | | virtual memory addresses up to the -128 TB
| | | | starting offset of kernel mappings.
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| Kernel-space virtual memory, shared between all processes:
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| | | |
ffff8d7ffee00000 | -114.5 TB | ffff8d7ffeffffff | 2 MB | fixmap
ffff8d7fff000000 | -114.5 TB | ffff8d7fffffffff | 16 MB | PCI io
ffff8d8000000000 | -114.5 TB | ffff8f7fffffffff | 2 TB | vmemmap
ffff8f8000000000 | -112.5 TB | ffffaf7fffffffff | 32 TB | vmalloc/ioremap space
ffffaf8000000000 | -80.5 TB | ffffef7fffffffff | 64 TB | direct mapping of all physical memory
ffffef8000000000 | -16.5 TB | fffffffeffffffff | 16.5 TB | kasan
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| Identical layout to the 39-bit one from here on:
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ffffffff00000000 | -4 GB | ffffffff7fffffff | 2 GB | modules, BPF
ffffffff80000000 | -2 GB | ffffffffffffffff | 2 GB | kernel
__________________|____________|__________________|_________|____________________________________________________________

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