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| author | Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> | 2007-10-16 01:24:15 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-10-16 09:42:51 -0700 |
| commit | 0889eba5b38f66d7d892a167d88284daddd3d43b (patch) | |
| tree | adb578bb92cc18dbf842a9bde67e3861db030557 /Documentation/x86_64 | |
| parent | 29c71111d0557385328211b130246a90f9223b46 (diff) | |
| download | linux-next-0889eba5b38f66d7d892a167d88284daddd3d43b.tar.gz | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/x86_64')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
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 ... |