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authorAndré Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu>2016-06-10 05:30:17 -0300
committerAndré Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu>2016-06-10 05:30:17 -0300
commitd635711daa98be86d4c7fd01499c34f566b54ccb (patch)
treeaa5cc3760a27c3d57146498cb82fa549547de06c /Documentation/x86/x86_64
parentc91265cd0efb83778f015b4d4b1129bd2cfd075e (diff)
Linux-libre 4.6.2-gnu
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/x86/x86_64')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt18
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
index 68ed3114c..0965a71f9 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ Machine check
threshold to 1. Enabling this may make memory predictive failure
analysis less effective if the bios sets thresholds for memory
errors since we will not see details for all errors.
+ mce=recovery
+ Force-enable recoverable machine check code paths
nomce (for compatibility with i386): same as mce=off
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt
index 05712ac83..5aa738346 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt
@@ -16,8 +16,10 @@ ffffec0000000000 - fffffc0000000000 (=44 bits) kasan shadow memory (16TB)
... unused hole ...
ffffff0000000000 - ffffff7fffffffff (=39 bits) %esp fixup stacks
... unused hole ...
+ffffffef00000000 - ffffffff00000000 (=64 GB) EFI region mapping space
+... unused hole ...
ffffffff80000000 - ffffffffa0000000 (=512 MB) kernel text mapping, from phys 0
-ffffffffa0000000 - ffffffffff5fffff (=1525 MB) module mapping space
+ffffffffa0000000 - ffffffffff5fffff (=1526 MB) module mapping space
ffffffffff600000 - ffffffffffdfffff (=8 MB) vsyscalls
ffffffffffe00000 - ffffffffffffffff (=2 MB) unused hole
@@ -29,14 +31,12 @@ vmalloc space is lazily synchronized into the different PML4 pages of
the processes using the page fault handler, with init_level4_pgt as
reference.
-Current X86-64 implementations only support 40 bits of address space,
-but we support up to 46 bits. This expands into MBZ space in the page tables.
-
-->trampoline_pgd:
-
-We map EFI runtime services in the aforementioned PGD in the virtual
-range of 64Gb (arbitrarily set, can be raised if needed)
+Current X86-64 implementations support up to 46 bits of address space (64 TB),
+which is our current limit. This expands into MBZ space in the page tables.
-0xffffffef00000000 - 0xffffffff00000000
+We map EFI runtime services in the 'efi_pgd' PGD in a 64Gb large virtual
+memory window (this size is arbitrary, it can be raised later if needed).
+The mappings are not part of any other kernel PGD and are only available
+during EFI runtime calls.
-Andi Kleen, Jul 2004