linux_dsm_epyc7002/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.rst
Linus Torvalds 1fb3b526df Some late arriving documentation changes. In particular, this contains the
conversion of the x86 docs to RST, which has been in the works for some
 time but needed a couple of final tweaks.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.2a' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull more documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "Some late arriving documentation changes. In particular, this contains
  the conversion of the x86 docs to RST, which has been in the works for
  some time but needed a couple of final tweaks"

* tag 'docs-5.2a' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (29 commits)
  Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/machinecheck to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/cpu-hotplug-spec to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/fake-numa-for-cpusets to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/5level-paging.txt to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/mm.txt to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/uefi.txt to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/boot-options.txt to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert i386/IO-APIC.txt to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert usb-legacy-support.txt to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert orc-unwinder.txt to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert resctrl_ui.txt to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert microcode.txt to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert pti.txt to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert amd-memory-encryption.txt to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert intel_mpx.txt to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert protection-keys.txt to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert pat.txt to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert mtrr.txt to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert tlb.txt to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert zero-page.txt to reST
  ...
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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Memory Managment
================
Complete virtual memory map with 4-level page tables
====================================================
.. note::
- Negative addresses such as "-23 TB" are absolute addresses in bytes, counted down
from the top of the 64-bit address space. It's easier to understand the layout
when seen both in absolute addresses and in distance-from-top notation.
For example 0xffffe90000000000 == -23 TB, it's 23 TB lower than the top of the
64-bit address space (ffffffffffffffff).
Note that as we get closer to the top of the address space, the notation changes
from TB to GB and then MB/KB.
- "16M TB" might look weird at first sight, but it's an easier to visualize size
notation than "16 EB", which few will recognize at first sight as 16 exabytes.
It also shows it nicely how incredibly large 64-bit address space is.
::
========================================================================================================================
Start addr | Offset | End addr | Size | VM area description
========================================================================================================================
| | | |
0000000000000000 | 0 | 00007fffffffffff | 128 TB | user-space virtual memory, different per mm
__________________|____________|__________________|_________|___________________________________________________________
| | | |
0000800000000000 | +128 TB | ffff7fffffffffff | ~16M TB | ... huge, almost 64 bits wide hole of non-canonical
| | | | virtual memory addresses up to the -128 TB
| | | | starting offset of kernel mappings.
__________________|____________|__________________|_________|___________________________________________________________
|
| Kernel-space virtual memory, shared between all processes:
____________________________________________________________|___________________________________________________________
| | | |
ffff800000000000 | -128 TB | ffff87ffffffffff | 8 TB | ... guard hole, also reserved for hypervisor
ffff880000000000 | -120 TB | ffff887fffffffff | 0.5 TB | LDT remap for PTI
ffff888000000000 | -119.5 TB | ffffc87fffffffff | 64 TB | direct mapping of all physical memory (page_offset_base)
ffffc88000000000 | -55.5 TB | ffffc8ffffffffff | 0.5 TB | ... unused hole
ffffc90000000000 | -55 TB | ffffe8ffffffffff | 32 TB | vmalloc/ioremap space (vmalloc_base)
ffffe90000000000 | -23 TB | ffffe9ffffffffff | 1 TB | ... unused hole
ffffea0000000000 | -22 TB | ffffeaffffffffff | 1 TB | virtual memory map (vmemmap_base)
ffffeb0000000000 | -21 TB | ffffebffffffffff | 1 TB | ... unused hole
ffffec0000000000 | -20 TB | fffffbffffffffff | 16 TB | KASAN shadow memory
__________________|____________|__________________|_________|____________________________________________________________
|
| Identical layout to the 56-bit one from here on:
____________________________________________________________|____________________________________________________________
| | | |
fffffc0000000000 | -4 TB | fffffdffffffffff | 2 TB | ... unused hole
| | | | vaddr_end for KASLR
fffffe0000000000 | -2 TB | fffffe7fffffffff | 0.5 TB | cpu_entry_area mapping
fffffe8000000000 | -1.5 TB | fffffeffffffffff | 0.5 TB | ... unused hole
ffffff0000000000 | -1 TB | ffffff7fffffffff | 0.5 TB | %esp fixup stacks
ffffff8000000000 | -512 GB | ffffffeeffffffff | 444 GB | ... unused hole
ffffffef00000000 | -68 GB | fffffffeffffffff | 64 GB | EFI region mapping space
ffffffff00000000 | -4 GB | ffffffff7fffffff | 2 GB | ... unused hole
ffffffff80000000 | -2 GB | ffffffff9fffffff | 512 MB | kernel text mapping, mapped to physical address 0
ffffffff80000000 |-2048 MB | | |
ffffffffa0000000 |-1536 MB | fffffffffeffffff | 1520 MB | module mapping space
ffffffffff000000 | -16 MB | | |
FIXADDR_START | ~-11 MB | ffffffffff5fffff | ~0.5 MB | kernel-internal fixmap range, variable size and offset
ffffffffff600000 | -10 MB | ffffffffff600fff | 4 kB | legacy vsyscall ABI
ffffffffffe00000 | -2 MB | ffffffffffffffff | 2 MB | ... unused hole
__________________|____________|__________________|_________|___________________________________________________________
Complete virtual memory map with 5-level page tables
====================================================
.. note::
- With 56-bit addresses, user-space memory gets expanded by a factor of 512x,
from 0.125 PB to 64 PB. All kernel mappings shift down to the -64 PB starting
offset and many of the regions expand to support the much larger physical
memory supported.
::
========================================================================================================================
Start addr | Offset | End addr | Size | VM area description
========================================================================================================================
| | | |
0000000000000000 | 0 | 00ffffffffffffff | 64 PB | user-space virtual memory, different per mm
__________________|____________|__________________|_________|___________________________________________________________
| | | |
0100000000000000 | +64 PB | feffffffffffffff | ~16K PB | ... huge, still almost 64 bits wide hole of non-canonical
| | | | virtual memory addresses up to the -64 PB
| | | | starting offset of kernel mappings.
__________________|____________|__________________|_________|___________________________________________________________
|
| Kernel-space virtual memory, shared between all processes:
____________________________________________________________|___________________________________________________________
| | | |
ff00000000000000 | -64 PB | ff0fffffffffffff | 4 PB | ... guard hole, also reserved for hypervisor
ff10000000000000 | -60 PB | ff10ffffffffffff | 0.25 PB | LDT remap for PTI
ff11000000000000 | -59.75 PB | ff90ffffffffffff | 32 PB | direct mapping of all physical memory (page_offset_base)
ff91000000000000 | -27.75 PB | ff9fffffffffffff | 3.75 PB | ... unused hole
ffa0000000000000 | -24 PB | ffd1ffffffffffff | 12.5 PB | vmalloc/ioremap space (vmalloc_base)
ffd2000000000000 | -11.5 PB | ffd3ffffffffffff | 0.5 PB | ... unused hole
ffd4000000000000 | -11 PB | ffd5ffffffffffff | 0.5 PB | virtual memory map (vmemmap_base)
ffd6000000000000 | -10.5 PB | ffdeffffffffffff | 2.25 PB | ... unused hole
ffdf000000000000 | -8.25 PB | fffffbffffffffff | ~8 PB | KASAN shadow memory
__________________|____________|__________________|_________|____________________________________________________________
|
| Identical layout to the 47-bit one from here on:
____________________________________________________________|____________________________________________________________
| | | |
fffffc0000000000 | -4 TB | fffffdffffffffff | 2 TB | ... unused hole
| | | | vaddr_end for KASLR
fffffe0000000000 | -2 TB | fffffe7fffffffff | 0.5 TB | cpu_entry_area mapping
fffffe8000000000 | -1.5 TB | fffffeffffffffff | 0.5 TB | ... unused hole
ffffff0000000000 | -1 TB | ffffff7fffffffff | 0.5 TB | %esp fixup stacks
ffffff8000000000 | -512 GB | ffffffeeffffffff | 444 GB | ... unused hole
ffffffef00000000 | -68 GB | fffffffeffffffff | 64 GB | EFI region mapping space
ffffffff00000000 | -4 GB | ffffffff7fffffff | 2 GB | ... unused hole
ffffffff80000000 | -2 GB | ffffffff9fffffff | 512 MB | kernel text mapping, mapped to physical address 0
ffffffff80000000 |-2048 MB | | |
ffffffffa0000000 |-1536 MB | fffffffffeffffff | 1520 MB | module mapping space
ffffffffff000000 | -16 MB | | |
FIXADDR_START | ~-11 MB | ffffffffff5fffff | ~0.5 MB | kernel-internal fixmap range, variable size and offset
ffffffffff600000 | -10 MB | ffffffffff600fff | 4 kB | legacy vsyscall ABI
ffffffffffe00000 | -2 MB | ffffffffffffffff | 2 MB | ... unused hole
__________________|____________|__________________|_________|___________________________________________________________
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 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
holes).
vmalloc space is lazily synchronized into the different PML4/PML5 pages of
the processes using the page fault handler, with init_top_pgt as
reference.
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
during EFI runtime calls.
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.
Be very careful vs. KASLR when changing anything here. The KASLR address
range must not overlap with anything except the KASAN shadow area, which is
correct as KASAN disables KASLR.
For both 4- and 5-level layouts, the STACKLEAK_POISON value in the last 2MB
hole: ffffffffffff4111