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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] [v2] x86: update memory map about hypervisor-reserved area
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 12:56:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140918195606.841389D2@viggo.jf.intel.com> (raw)


changes from v1:
 * fix the actual address since the reserved area is larger than
   the guard hole

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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	2014-09-18 12:43:55.672230059 -0700
+++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt	2014-09-18 12:55:17.642795338 -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 - 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
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