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author | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2016-05-17 06:17:59 (GMT) |
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committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2016-05-17 06:17:59 (GMT) |
commit | 0e0162bb8c008fa7742f69d4d4982c8a37b88f95 (patch) | |
tree | 4b230ab63b5698a44d2948e70a6cc22405c351e9 /Documentation | |
parent | ae05327a00fd47c34dfe25294b359a3f3fef96e8 (diff) | |
parent | 38b78a5f18584db6fa7441e0f4531b283b0e6725 (diff) | |
download | linux-0e0162bb8c008fa7742f69d4d4982c8a37b88f95.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'ovl-fixes' into for-linus
Backmerge to resolve a conflict in ovl_lookup_real();
"ovl_lookup_real(): use lookup_one_len_unlocked()" instead,
but it was too late in the cycle to rebase.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
22 files changed, 112 insertions, 85 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arc/archs-pct.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arc/archs-pct.txt index 1ae98b87..e4b9dce 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arc/archs-pct.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arc/archs-pct.txt @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ The ARC HS can be configured with a pipeline performance monitor for counting CPU and cache events like cache misses and hits. Like conventional PCT there -are 100+ hardware conditions dynamically mapped to upto 32 counters. +are 100+ hardware conditions dynamically mapped to up to 32 counters. It also supports overflow interrupts. Required properties: diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arc/pct.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arc/pct.txt index 7b95884..4e874d9 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arc/pct.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arc/pct.txt @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ The ARC700 can be configured with a pipeline performance monitor for counting CPU and cache events like cache misses and hits. Like conventional PCT there -are 100+ hardware conditions dynamically mapped to upto 32 counters +are 100+ hardware conditions dynamically mapped to up to 32 counters Note that: * The ARC 700 PCT does not support interrupts; although HW events may be diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt index ccc62f1..3f0cbbb 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt @@ -192,7 +192,6 @@ nodes to be present and contain the properties described below. can be one of: "allwinner,sun6i-a31" "allwinner,sun8i-a23" - "arm,psci" "arm,realview-smp" "brcm,bcm-nsp-smp" "brcm,brahma-b15" diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ata/ahci-platform.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ata/ahci-platform.txt index 30df832..87adfb2 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ata/ahci-platform.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ata/ahci-platform.txt @@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ Optional properties: - target-supply : regulator for SATA target power - phys : reference to the SATA PHY node - phy-names : must be "sata-phy" +- ports-implemented : Mask that indicates which ports that the HBA supports + are available for software to use. Useful if PORTS_IMPL + is not programmed by the BIOS, which is true with + some embedded SOC's. Required properties when using sub-nodes: - #address-cells : number of cells to encode an address diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-rk3x.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-rk3x.txt index f0d71bc..0b4a85f 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-rk3x.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-rk3x.txt @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ RK3xxx SoCs. Required properties : - reg : Offset and length of the register set for the device - - compatible : should be "rockchip,rk3066-i2c", "rockchip,rk3188-i2c" or - "rockchip,rk3288-i2c". + - compatible : should be "rockchip,rk3066-i2c", "rockchip,rk3188-i2c", + "rockchip,rk3228-i2c" or "rockchip,rk3288-i2c". - interrupts : interrupt number - clocks : parent clock diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/cpsw.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/cpsw.txt index 28a4781..0ae0649 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/cpsw.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/cpsw.txt @@ -45,13 +45,13 @@ Required properties: Optional properties: - dual_emac_res_vlan : Specifies VID to be used to segregate the ports - mac-address : See ethernet.txt file in the same directory -- phy_id : Specifies slave phy id +- phy_id : Specifies slave phy id (deprecated, use phy-handle) - phy-handle : See ethernet.txt file in the same directory Slave sub-nodes: - fixed-link : See fixed-link.txt file in the same directory - Either the property phy_id, or the sub-node - fixed-link can be specified + +Note: Exactly one of phy_id, phy-handle, or fixed-link must be specified. Note: "ti,hwmods" field is used to fetch the base address and irq resources from TI, omap hwmod data base during device registration. diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mediatek-net.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mediatek-net.txt index 5ca7929..32eaaca 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mediatek-net.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mediatek-net.txt @@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ have dual GMAC each represented by a child node.. Required properties: - compatible: Should be "mediatek,mt7623-eth" - reg: Address and length of the register set for the device -- interrupts: Should contain the frame engines interrupt +- interrupts: Should contain the three frame engines interrupts in numeric + order. These are fe_int0, fe_int1 and fe_int2. - clocks: the clock used by the core - clock-names: the names of the clock listed in the clocks property. These are "ethif", "esw", "gp2", "gp1" @@ -42,7 +43,9 @@ eth: ethernet@1b100000 { <ðsys CLK_ETHSYS_GP2>, <ðsys CLK_ETHSYS_GP1>; clock-names = "ethif", "esw", "gp2", "gp1"; - interrupts = <GIC_SPI 200 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW>; + interrupts = <GIC_SPI 200 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW + GIC_SPI 199 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW + GIC_SPI 198 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW>; power-domains = <&scpsys MT2701_POWER_DOMAIN_ETH>; resets = <ðsys MT2701_ETHSYS_ETH_RST>; reset-names = "eth"; diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/rockchip-dp-phy.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/rockchip-dp-phy.txt index 50c4f9b..e3b4809 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/rockchip-dp-phy.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/rockchip-dp-phy.txt @@ -8,15 +8,19 @@ Required properties: of memory mapped region. - clock-names: from common clock binding: Required elements: "24m" -- rockchip,grf: phandle to the syscon managing the "general register files" - #phy-cells : from the generic PHY bindings, must be 0; Example: -edp_phy: edp-phy { - compatible = "rockchip,rk3288-dp-phy"; - rockchip,grf = <&grf>; - clocks = <&cru SCLK_EDP_24M>; - clock-names = "24m"; - #phy-cells = <0>; +grf: syscon@ff770000 { + compatible = "rockchip,rk3288-grf", "syscon", "simple-mfd"; + +... + + edp_phy: edp-phy { + compatible = "rockchip,rk3288-dp-phy"; + clocks = <&cru SCLK_EDP_24M>; + clock-names = "24m"; + #phy-cells = <0>; + }; }; diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/rockchip-emmc-phy.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/rockchip-emmc-phy.txt index 61916f1..555cb0f 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/rockchip-emmc-phy.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/rockchip-emmc-phy.txt @@ -3,17 +3,23 @@ Rockchip EMMC PHY Required properties: - compatible: rockchip,rk3399-emmc-phy - - rockchip,grf : phandle to the syscon managing the "general - register files" - #phy-cells: must be 0 - - reg: PHY configure reg address offset in "general + - reg: PHY register address offset and length in "general register files" Example: -emmcphy: phy { - compatible = "rockchip,rk3399-emmc-phy"; - rockchip,grf = <&grf>; - reg = <0xf780>; - #phy-cells = <0>; + +grf: syscon@ff770000 { + compatible = "rockchip,rk3399-grf", "syscon", "simple-mfd"; + #address-cells = <1>; + #size-cells = <1>; + +... + + emmcphy: phy@f780 { + compatible = "rockchip,rk3399-emmc-phy"; + reg = <0xf780 0x20>; + #phy-cells = <0>; + }; }; diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/meson,pinctrl.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/meson,pinctrl.txt index 3f6a524..32f4a2d 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/meson,pinctrl.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/meson,pinctrl.txt @@ -1,13 +1,16 @@ == Amlogic Meson pinmux controller == Required properties for the root node: - - compatible: "amlogic,meson8-pinctrl" or "amlogic,meson8b-pinctrl" + - compatible: one of "amlogic,meson8-cbus-pinctrl" + "amlogic,meson8b-cbus-pinctrl" + "amlogic,meson8-aobus-pinctrl" + "amlogic,meson8b-aobus-pinctrl" - reg: address and size of registers controlling irq functionality === GPIO sub-nodes === -The 2 power domains of the controller (regular and always-on) are -represented as sub-nodes and each of them acts as a GPIO controller. +The GPIO bank for the controller is represented as a sub-node and it acts as a +GPIO controller. Required properties for sub-nodes are: - reg: should contain address and size for mux, pull-enable, pull and @@ -18,10 +21,6 @@ Required properties for sub-nodes are: - gpio-controller: identifies the node as a gpio controller - #gpio-cells: must be 2 -Valid sub-node names are: - - "banks" for the regular domain - - "ao-bank" for the always-on domain - === Other sub-nodes === Child nodes without the "gpio-controller" represent some desired @@ -45,7 +44,7 @@ pinctrl-bindings.txt === Example === pinctrl: pinctrl@c1109880 { - compatible = "amlogic,meson8-pinctrl"; + compatible = "amlogic,meson8-cbus-pinctrl"; reg = <0xc1109880 0x10>; #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <1>; @@ -61,15 +60,6 @@ pinctrl-bindings.txt #gpio-cells = <2>; }; - gpio_ao: ao-bank@c1108030 { - reg = <0xc8100014 0x4>, - <0xc810002c 0x4>, - <0xc8100024 0x8>; - reg-names = "mux", "pull", "gpio"; - gpio-controller; - #gpio-cells = <2>; - }; - nand { mux { groups = "nand_io", "nand_io_ce0", "nand_io_ce1", @@ -79,18 +69,4 @@ pinctrl-bindings.txt function = "nand"; }; }; - - uart_ao_a { - mux { - groups = "uart_tx_ao_a", "uart_rx_ao_a", - "uart_cts_ao_a", "uart_rts_ao_a"; - function = "uart_ao"; - }; - - conf { - pins = "GPIOAO_0", "GPIOAO_1", - "GPIOAO_2", "GPIOAO_3"; - bias-disable; - }; - }; }; diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/s3c-rtc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/s3c-rtc.txt index 1068ffc..fdde63a 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/s3c-rtc.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/s3c-rtc.txt @@ -15,9 +15,10 @@ Required properties: is the rtc tick interrupt. The number of cells representing a interrupt depends on the parent interrupt controller. - clocks: Must contain a list of phandle and clock specifier for the rtc - and source clocks. -- clock-names: Must contain "rtc" and "rtc_src" entries sorted in the - same order as the clocks property. + clock and in the case of a s3c6410 compatible controller, also + a source clock. +- clock-names: Must contain "rtc" and for a s3c6410 compatible controller, + a "rtc_src" sorted in the same order as the clocks property. Example: diff --git a/Documentation/input/event-codes.txt b/Documentation/input/event-codes.txt index 3f0f5ce..36ea940 100644 --- a/Documentation/input/event-codes.txt +++ b/Documentation/input/event-codes.txt @@ -173,6 +173,10 @@ A few EV_ABS codes have special meanings: proximity of the device and while the value of the BTN_TOUCH code is 0. If the input device may be used freely in three dimensions, consider ABS_Z instead. + - BTN_TOOL_<name> should be set to 1 when the tool comes into detectable + proximity and set to 0 when the tool leaves detectable proximity. + BTN_TOOL_<name> signals the type of tool that is currently detected by the + hardware and is otherwise independent of ABS_DISTANCE and/or BTN_TOUCH. * ABS_MT_<name>: - Used to describe multitouch input events. Please see diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index ecc74fa..0b3de80 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -4077,6 +4077,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. sector if the number is odd); i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this device); + j = NO_REPORT_LUNS (don't use report luns + command, uas only); l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and unlock ejectable media); m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more diff --git a/Documentation/networking/altera_tse.txt b/Documentation/networking/altera_tse.txt index 3f24df8..50b8589 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/altera_tse.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/altera_tse.txt @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ This is the driver for the Altera Triple-Speed Ethernet (TSE) controllers using the SGDMA and MSGDMA soft DMA IP components. The driver uses the platform bus to obtain component resources. The designs used to test this driver were built for a Cyclone(R) V SOC FPGA board, a Cyclone(R) V FPGA board, -and tested with ARM and NIOS processor hosts seperately. The anticipated use +and tested with ARM and NIOS processor hosts separately. The anticipated use cases are simple communications between an embedded system and an external peer for status and simple configuration of the embedded system. @@ -65,14 +65,14 @@ Driver parameters can be also passed in command line by using: 4.1) Transmit process When the driver's transmit routine is called by the kernel, it sets up a transmit descriptor by calling the underlying DMA transmit routine (SGDMA or -MSGDMA), and initites a transmit operation. Once the transmit is complete, an +MSGDMA), and initiates a transmit operation. Once the transmit is complete, an interrupt is driven by the transmit DMA logic. The driver handles the transmit completion in the context of the interrupt handling chain by recycling resource required to send and track the requested transmit operation. 4.2) Receive process The driver will post receive buffers to the receive DMA logic during driver -intialization. Receive buffers may or may not be queued depending upon the +initialization. Receive buffers may or may not be queued depending upon the underlying DMA logic (MSGDMA is able queue receive buffers, SGDMA is not able to queue receive buffers to the SGDMA receive logic). When a packet is received, the DMA logic generates an interrupt. The driver handles a receive diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt b/Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt index cf99639..14422f8 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Initial Release: This is conceptually very similar to the macvlan driver with one major exception of using L3 for mux-ing /demux-ing among slaves. This property makes the master device share the L2 with it's slave devices. I have developed this -driver in conjuntion with network namespaces and not sure if there is use case +driver in conjunction with network namespaces and not sure if there is use case outside of it. @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ out. In this mode the slaves will RX/TX multicast and broadcast (if applicable) as well. 4.2 L3 mode: - In this mode TX processing upto L3 happens on the stack instance attached + In this mode TX processing up to L3 happens on the stack instance attached to the slave device and packets are switched to the stack instance of the master device for the L2 processing and routing from that instance will be used before packets are queued on the outbound device. In this mode the slaves @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ situations defines your use case then you can choose to use ipvlan - (a) The Linux host that is connected to the external switch / router has policy configured that allows only one mac per port. (b) No of virtual devices created on a master exceed the mac capacity and -puts the NIC in promiscous mode and degraded performance is a concern. +puts the NIC in promiscuous mode and degraded performance is a concern. (c) If the slave device is to be put into the hostile / untrusted network namespace where L2 on the slave could be changed / misused. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt b/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt index f4be85e..2c4e335 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt @@ -67,12 +67,12 @@ The two basic thread commands are: * add_device DEVICE@NAME -- adds a single device * rem_device_all -- remove all associated devices -When adding a device to a thread, a corrosponding procfile is created +When adding a device to a thread, a corresponding procfile is created which is used for configuring this device. Thus, device names need to be unique. To support adding the same device to multiple threads, which is useful -with multi queue NICs, a the device naming scheme is extended with "@": +with multi queue NICs, the device naming scheme is extended with "@": device@something The part after "@" can be anything, but it is custom to use the thread @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ Sample scripts A collection of tutorial scripts and helpers for pktgen is in the samples/pktgen directory. The helper parameters.sh file support easy -and consistant parameter parsing across the sample scripts. +and consistent parameter parsing across the sample scripts. Usage example and help: ./pktgen_sample01_simple.sh -i eth4 -m 00:1B:21:3C:9D:F8 -d 192.168.8.2 diff --git a/Documentation/networking/vrf.txt b/Documentation/networking/vrf.txt index d52aa10..5da679c 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/vrf.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/vrf.txt @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ using an rx_handler which gives the impression that packets flow through the VRF device. Similarly on egress routing rules are used to send packets to the VRF device driver before getting sent out the actual interface. This allows tcpdump on a VRF device to capture all packets into and out of the -VRF as a whole.[1] Similiarly, netfilter [2] and tc rules can be applied +VRF as a whole.[1] Similarly, netfilter [2] and tc rules can be applied using the VRF device to specify rules that apply to the VRF domain as a whole. [1] Packets in the forwarded state do not flow through the device, so those diff --git a/Documentation/networking/xfrm_sync.txt b/Documentation/networking/xfrm_sync.txt index d7aac9d..8d88e0f 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/xfrm_sync.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/xfrm_sync.txt @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Krisztian <hidden@balabit.hu> and others and additional patches from Jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>. The end goal for syncing is to be able to insert attributes + generate -events so that the an SA can be safely moved from one machine to another +events so that the SA can be safely moved from one machine to another for HA purposes. The idea is to synchronize the SA so that the takeover machine can do the processing of the SA as accurate as possible if it has access to it. @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ We already have the ability to generate SA add/del/upd events. These patches add ability to sync and have accurate lifetime byte (to ensure proper decay of SAs) and replay counters to avoid replay attacks with as minimal loss at failover time. -This way a backup stays as closely uptodate as an active member. +This way a backup stays as closely up-to-date as an active member. Because the above items change for every packet the SA receives, it is possible for a lot of the events to be generated. @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ If you have an SA that is getting hit by traffic in bursts such that there is a period where the timer threshold expires with no packets seen, then an odd behavior is seen as follows: The first packet arrival after a timer expiry will trigger a timeout -aevent; i.e we dont wait for a timeout period or a packet threshold +event; i.e we don't wait for a timeout period or a packet threshold to be reached. This is done for simplicity and efficiency reasons. -JHS diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index cb03684..34a5fec 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -581,15 +581,16 @@ Specify "[Nn]ode" for node order "Zone Order" orders the zonelists by zone type, then by node within each zone. Specify "[Zz]one" for zone order. -Specify "[Dd]efault" to request automatic configuration. Autoconfiguration -will select "node" order in following case. -(1) if the DMA zone does not exist or -(2) if the DMA zone comprises greater than 50% of the available memory or -(3) if any node's DMA zone comprises greater than 70% of its local memory and - the amount of local memory is big enough. - -Otherwise, "zone" order will be selected. Default order is recommended unless -this is causing problems for your system/application. +Specify "[Dd]efault" to request automatic configuration. + +On 32-bit, the Normal zone needs to be preserved for allocations accessible +by the kernel, so "zone" order will be selected. + +On 64-bit, devices that require DMA32/DMA are relatively rare, so "node" +order will be selected. + +Default order is recommended unless this is causing problems for your +system/application. ============================================================== diff --git a/Documentation/usb/gadget_multi.txt b/Documentation/usb/gadget_multi.txt index 7d66a86..5faf514 100644 --- a/Documentation/usb/gadget_multi.txt +++ b/Documentation/usb/gadget_multi.txt @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ For the gadget two work under Windows two conditions have to be met: First of all, Windows need to detect the gadget as an USB composite gadget which on its own have some conditions[4]. If they are met, Windows lets USB Generic Parent Driver[5] handle the device which then -tries to much drivers for each individual interface (sort of, don't +tries to match drivers for each individual interface (sort of, don't get into too many details). The good news is: you do not have to worry about most of the diff --git a/Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt b/Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c281ded --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +Memory Protection Keys for Userspace (PKU aka PKEYs) is a CPU feature +which will be found on future Intel CPUs. + +Memory Protection Keys provides a mechanism for enforcing page-based +protections, but without requiring modification of the page tables +when an application changes protection domains. It works by +dedicating 4 previously ignored bits in each page table entry to a +"protection key", giving 16 possible keys. + +There is also a new user-accessible register (PKRU) with two separate +bits (Access Disable and Write Disable) for each key. Being a CPU +register, PKRU is inherently thread-local, potentially giving each +thread a different set of protections from every other thread. + +There are two new instructions (RDPKRU/WRPKRU) for reading and writing +to the new register. The feature is only available in 64-bit mode, +even though there is theoretically space in the PAE PTEs. These +permissions are enforced on data access only and have no effect on +instruction fetches. + +=========================== Config Option =========================== + +This config option adds approximately 1.5kb of text. and 50 bytes of +data to the executable. A workload which does large O_DIRECT reads +of holes in XFS files was run to exercise get_user_pages_fast(). No +performance delta was observed with the config option +enabled or disabled. diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt index c518dce..5aa7383 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ ffffff0000000000 - ffffff7fffffffff (=39 bits) %esp fixup stacks 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 @@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ 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. +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. 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). |