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authorChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>2007-10-16 12:24:15 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-16 20:42:51 +0400
commit0889eba5b38f66d7d892a167d88284daddd3d43b (patch)
treeadb578bb92cc18dbf842a9bde67e3861db030557 /Documentation
parent29c71111d0557385328211b130246a90f9223b46 (diff)
downloadlinux-0889eba5b38f66d7d892a167d88284daddd3d43b.tar.xz
x86_64: SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 2M page size support
x86_64 uses 2M page table entries to map its 1-1 kernel space. We also implement the virtual memmap using 2M page table entries. So there is no additional runtime overhead over FLATMEM, initialisation is slightly more complex. As FLATMEM still references memory to obtain the mem_map pointer and SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a compile time constant, SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP should be superior. With this SPARSEMEM becomes the most efficient way of handling virt_to_page, pfn_to_page and friends for UP, SMP and NUMA on x86_64. [apw@shadowen.org: code resplit, style fixups] [apw@shadowen.org: vmemmap x86_64: ensure end of section memmap is initialised] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt b/Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt
index f42798ed1c54..b89b6d2bebfa 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ 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 ...