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Virtual memory map with 4 level page tables:
-0000000000000000 - 00007fffffffffff (=47bits) user space, different per mm
+0000000000000000 - 00007fffffffffff (=47 bits) user space, different per mm
hole caused by [48:63] sign extension
-ffff800000000000 - ffff80ffffffffff (=40bits) guard hole
-ffff810000000000 - ffffc0ffffffffff (=46bits) direct mapping of all phys. memory
-ffffc10000000000 - ffffc1ffffffffff (=40bits) hole
-ffffc20000000000 - ffffe1ffffffffff (=45bits) vmalloc/ioremap space
+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
... unused hole ...
-ffffffff80000000 - ffffffff82800000 (=40MB) kernel text mapping, from phys 0
+ffffffff80000000 - ffffffff82800000 (=40 MB) kernel text mapping, from phys 0
... unused hole ...
-ffffffff88000000 - fffffffffff00000 (=1919MB) module mapping space
+ffffffff88000000 - fffffffffff00000 (=1919 MB) module mapping space
-The direct mapping covers all memory in the system upto the highest
+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
-holes)
+holes).
vmalloc space is lazily synchronized into the different PML4 pages of
the processes using the page fault handler, with init_level4_pgt as
reference.
-Current X86-64 implementations only support 40 bit of address space,
-but we support upto 46bits. This expands into MBZ space in the page tables.
+Current X86-64 implementations only support 40 bits of address space,
+but we support up to 46 bits. This expands into MBZ space in the page tables.
-Andi Kleen, Jul 2004