Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:20:27 +0800 | Subject | x86_64 virtual memory map | From | hayfeng Lee <> |
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Hi,folks. Recently I'm studying some things of x86_64 on Linux. And the virsion is 2.6.18.8. From the document of Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt,I found the mapping method for x86_64 virtual memory map. I want to know ,why use this method for virtual memory mapping?
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 2 <previous description obsolete, deleted> 3 4 Virtual memory map with 4 level page tables: 5 6 0000000000000000 - 00007fffffffffff (=47bits) user space, different per mm 7 hole caused by [48:63] sign extension 8 ffff800000000000 - ffff80ffffffffff (=40bits) guard hole 9 ffff810000000000 - ffffc0ffffffffff (=46bits) direct mapping of all phys. memory 10 ffffc10000000000 - ffffc1ffffffffff (=40bits) hole 11 ffffc20000000000 - ffffe1ffffffffff (=45bits) vmalloc/ioremap space 12 ... unused hole ... 13 ffffffff80000000 - ffffffff82800000 (=40MB) kernel text mapping, from phys 0 14 ... unused hole ... 15 ffffffff88000000 - fffffffffff00000 (=1919MB) module mapping space 16 17 The direct mapping covers all memory in the system upto the highest 18 memory address (this means in some cases it can also include PCI memory 19 holes) 20 21 vmalloc space is lazily synchronized into the different PML4 pages of 22 the processes using the page fault handler, with init_level4_pgt as 23 reference. 24 25 Current X86-64 implementations only support 40 bit of address space, 26 but we support upto 46bits. This expands into MBZ space in the page tables. 27 28 -Andi Kleen, Jul 2004
I urgently want to know the answer.
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