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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: update memory map about hypervisor-reserved area
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2014-09-18 19:46 GMT+04:00 Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>:
>
> From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
>
> Peter Anvin says:
>> 0xffff880000000000 is the lowest usable address because we have
>> agreed to leave 0xffff800000000000-0xffff880000000000 for the
>> hypervisor or other non-OS uses.
>
> Let's call this out in the documentation.
>
> This came up during the kernel address sanitizer discussions
> where it was proposed to use this area for other kernel things.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
> Cc: x86@kernel.org
> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> ---
>
> b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff -puN Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt~update-x86-mm-doc Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt
> --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt~update-x86-mm-doc 2014-09-17 21:44:10.499781092 -0700
> +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt 2014-09-17 21:44:31.852740822 -0700
> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Virtual memory map with 4 level page tab
>
> 0000000000000000 - 00007fffffffffff (=47 bits) user space, different per mm
> hole caused by [48:63] sign extension
> -ffff800000000000 - ffff80ffffffffff (=40 bits) guard hole
> +ffff800000000000 - ffff80ffffffffff (=40 bits) guard hole, reserved for hypervisor

ffff800000000000 - ffff87ffffffffff (=43 bits) guard hole, reserved
for hypervisor

> ffff880000000000 - ffffc7ffffffffff (=64 TB) direct mapping of all phys. memory
> ffffc80000000000 - ffffc8ffffffffff (=40 bits) hole
> ffffc90000000000 - ffffe8ffffffffff (=45 bits) vmalloc/ioremap space
> _



--
Best regards,
Andrey Ryabinin


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