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]>

diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt
index afe68ddbe6a474667aac1684367274754a0189fd..052ee643a32ee2c9c44cc75af6abeb9bd97040d5 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Virtual memory map with 4 level page tables:
 
 0000000000000000 - 00007fffffffffff (=47 bits) user space, different per mm
 hole caused by [48:63] sign extension
-ffff800000000000 - ffff80ffffffffff (=40 bits) guard hole
+ffff800000000000 - ffff87ffffffffff (=43 bits) guard hole, reserved for hypervisor
 ffff880000000000 - ffffc7ffffffffff (=64 TB) direct mapping of all phys. memory
 ffffc80000000000 - ffffc8ffffffffff (=40 bits) hole
 ffffc90000000000 - ffffe8ffffffffff (=45 bits) vmalloc/ioremap space