From: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>,
dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com,
dvyukov@google.com, andi@firstfloor.org, x86@kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com
Subject: [PATCH] x86: update memory map about hypervisor-reserved area
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 08:46:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140918154621.F16A2C86@viggo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
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
ffff880000000000 - ffffc7ffffffffff (=64 TB) direct mapping of all phys. memory
ffffc80000000000 - ffffc8ffffffffff (=40 bits) hole
ffffc90000000000 - ffffe8ffffffffff (=45 bits) vmalloc/ioremap space
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