This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/doc: Remove obvious weirdnesses from the x86 MM layout documentation
to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: x86-doc-remove-obvious-weirdnesses-from-the-x86-mm-layout-documentation.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From e8ffe96e5933d417195268478479933d56213a3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 13:34:54 +0100 Subject: x86/doc: Remove obvious weirdnesses from the x86 MM layout documentation
From: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org
commit e8ffe96e5933d417195268478479933d56213a3f upstream.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) peterz@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Cc: Boris Ostrovsky boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com Cc: Borislav Petkov bp@alien8.de Cc: Brian Gerst brgerst@gmail.com Cc: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Cc: David Laight David.Laight@aculab.com Cc: Denys Vlasenko dvlasenk@redhat.com Cc: Eduardo Valentin eduval@amazon.com Cc: Greg KH gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: H. Peter Anvin hpa@zytor.com Cc: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com Cc: Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com Cc: aliguori@amazon.com Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at Cc: hughd@google.com Cc: keescook@google.com Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt | 12 +++--------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
--- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt @@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-<previous description obsolete, deleted> - Virtual memory map with 4 level page tables:
0000000000000000 - 00007fffffffffff (=47 bits) user space, different per mm @@ -49,8 +47,9 @@ ffffffffffe00000 - ffffffffffffffff (=2
Architecture defines a 64-bit virtual address. Implementations can support less. Currently supported are 48- and 57-bit virtual addresses. Bits 63 -through to the most-significant implemented bit are set to either all ones -or all zero. This causes hole between user space and kernel addresses. +through to the most-significant implemented bit are sign extended. +This causes hole between user space and kernel addresses if you interpret them +as unsigned.
The direct mapping covers all memory in the system up to the highest memory address (this means in some cases it can also include PCI memory @@ -60,9 +59,6 @@ vmalloc space is lazily synchronized int the processes using the page fault handler, with init_top_pgt as reference.
-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). The mappings are not part of any other kernel PGD and are only available @@ -74,5 +70,3 @@ following fixmap section. Note that if CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY is enabled, the direct mapping of all physical memory, vmalloc/ioremap space and virtual memory map are randomized. Their order is preserved but their base will be offset early at boot time. - --Andi Kleen, Jul 2004
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from peterz@infradead.org are
queue-4.14/x86-entry-rename-sysenter_stack-to-cpu_entry_area_entry_stack.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-put-mmu-to-hardware-asid-translation-in-one-place.patch queue-4.14/x86-vsyscall-64-explicitly-set-_page_user-in-the-pagetable-hierarchy.patch queue-4.14/x86-uv-use-the-right-tlb-flush-api.patch queue-4.14/x86-decoder-fix-and-update-the-opcodes-map.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-dump_pagetables-check-page_present-for-real.patch queue-4.14/x86-ldt-prevent-ldt-inheritance-on-exec.patch queue-4.14/x86-microcode-dont-abuse-the-tlb-flush-interface.patch queue-4.14/x86-doc-remove-obvious-weirdnesses-from-the-x86-mm-layout-documentation.patch queue-4.14/init-invoke-init_espfix_bsp-from-mm_init.patch queue-4.14/x86-cpu_entry_area-move-it-to-a-separate-unit.patch queue-4.14/x86-vsyscall-64-warn-and-fail-vsyscall-emulation-in-native-mode.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-create-asm-invpcid.h.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-remove-superfluous-barriers.patch queue-4.14/x86-ldt-rework-locking.patch queue-4.14/arch-mm-allow-arch_dup_mmap-to-fail.patch queue-4.14/x86-cpu_entry_area-move-it-out-of-the-fixmap.patch queue-4.14/tools-headers-sync-objtool-uapi-header.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-remove-hard-coded-asid-limit-checks.patch queue-4.14/x86-kconfig-limit-nr_cpus-on-32-bit-to-a-sane-amount.patch queue-4.14/objtool-fix-64-bit-build-on-32-bit-host.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-add-comments-to-clarify-which-tlb-flush-functions-are-supposed-to-flush-what.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-move-the-cr3-construction-functions-to-tlbflush.h.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-dump_pagetables-make-the-address-hints-correct-and-readable.patch queue-4.14/x86-insn-eval-add-utility-functions-to-get-segment-selector.patch queue-4.14/objtool-move-synced-files-to-their-original-relative-locations.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-use-__flush_tlb_one-for-kernel-memory.patch queue-4.14/objtool-move-kernel-headers-code-sync-check-to-a-script.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-64-improve-the-memory-map-documentation.patch queue-4.14/objtool-fix-cross-build.patch