Dave Hansen beb9147e95 x86/mm: Update memory map description to list hypervisor-reserved area ...

Peter Anvin says:

 > 0xffff880000000000 is the lowest usable address because we have
 > agreed to leave 0xffff800000000000-0xffff880000000000 for the
 > hypervisor or other non-OS uses.

Let's call this out in the documentation.

This came up during the kernel address sanitizer discussions
where it was proposed to use this area for other kernel things.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <[email protected]>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

2014-09-19 12:48:02 +02:00

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i386

doc: spelling error changes

2014-05-05 15:32:05 +02:00

x86_64

x86/mm: Update memory map description to list hypervisor-reserved area

2014-09-19 12:48:02 +02:00

00-INDEX

Documentation/: update 00-INDEX files

2014-02-10 16:01:40 -08:00

boot.txt

x86, boot: Correct max ramdisk size name

2014-03-13 15:32:42 -07:00

early-microcode.txt

x86, microcode, amd: Early microcode patch loading support for AMD

2013-05-30 20:19:25 -07:00

earlyprintk.txt

doc: spelling error changes

2014-05-05 15:32:05 +02:00

entry_64.txt

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exception-tables.txt

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mtrr.txt

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pat.txt

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tlb.txt

x86/doc: Fix the 'tlb_single_page_flush_ceiling' sysconfig path

2014-08-10 09:09:26 +02:00

usb-legacy-support.txt

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zero-page.txt

x86, boot: Define the 2.12 bzImage boot protocol

2013-01-27 15:56:37 -08:00