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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-18 21:13:20 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-18 21:13:20 +0200 |
commit | f6dc8ccaab6d8f63cbae1e6c73fe972b26f5376c (patch) | |
tree | c5643fcdc884a8d0bfc3f1bc28039cab7394e5bc /Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt | |
parent | 323ec001c6bb98eeabb5abbdbb8c8055d9496554 (diff) | |
parent | 5b664cb235e97afbf34db9c4d77f08ebd725335e (diff) |
Merge branch 'linus' into core/generic-dma-coherent
Conflicts:
kernel/Makefile
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt b/Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt deleted file mode 100644 index b89b6d2bebfa..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,29 +0,0 @@ - -<previous description obsolete, deleted> - -Virtual memory map with 4 level page tables: - -0000000000000000 - 00007fffffffffff (=47 bits) user space, different per mm -hole caused by [48:63] sign extension -ffff800000000000 - ffff80ffffffffff (=40 bits) guard hole -ffff810000000000 - ffffc0ffffffffff (=46 bits) direct mapping of all phys. memory -ffffc10000000000 - ffffc1ffffffffff (=40 bits) hole -ffffc20000000000 - ffffe1ffffffffff (=45 bits) vmalloc/ioremap space -ffffe20000000000 - ffffe2ffffffffff (=40 bits) virtual memory map (1TB) -... unused hole ... -ffffffff80000000 - ffffffff82800000 (=40 MB) kernel text mapping, from phys 0 -... unused hole ... -ffffffff88000000 - fffffffffff00000 (=1919 MB) module mapping space - -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 -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. - --Andi Kleen, Jul 2004 |