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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-05-06 18:33:54 +0300 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-05-06 18:33:54 +0300 |
| commit | a3f53e8adfda814730c341ee39ce015a0abf69aa (patch) | |
| tree | 17b9aa4c94dff50240f3445f7f9ebf20eeeea201 /Documentation/x86 | |
| parent | 8404c9fbc84b741f66cff7d4934a25dd2c344452 (diff) | |
| parent | 7fc4607899e87259bb751ccdbe53628aa467ec22 (diff) | |
| download | linux-a3f53e8adfda814730c341ee39ce015a0abf69aa.tar.xz | |
Merge tag 'docs-5.13-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
"A few late-arriving documentation fixes, including some oprofile
cleanup, a kernel-doc fix, some regression-reporting updates, and the
usual minor fixes"
* tag 'docs-5.13-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
Enlisted oprofile version line removed
oprofiled version output line removed from the list
Removed the oprofiled version option
docs: reporting-issues.rst: CC subsystem and maintainers on regressions
docs: correct URL to bios and kernel developer's guide
docs/core-api: Consistent code style
docs/zh_CN: Adjust order and content of zh_CN/index.rst
Documentation: input: joydev file corrections
docs: Fix typo in Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.rst
kernel-doc: Add support for __deprecated
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/x86')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.rst b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.rst index 44856417e6a5..b792bbdc0b01 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.rst +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.rst @@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ Overview ======== -Original x86-64 was limited by 4-level paing to 256 TiB of virtual address +Original x86-64 was limited by 4-level paging to 256 TiB of virtual address space and 64 TiB of physical address space. We are already bumping into -this limit: some vendors offers servers with 64 TiB of memory today. +this limit: some vendors offer servers with 64 TiB of memory today. To overcome the limitation upcoming hardware will introduce support for 5-level paging. It is a straight-forward extension of the current page |