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authorAlan Cox <alc@FreeBSD.org>2008-06-30 03:14:39 +0000
committerAlan Cox <alc@FreeBSD.org>2008-06-30 03:14:39 +0000
commit17e2138882a3272ff246036d8de1b255d6d62010 (patch)
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parent67ce249ac9002e9c2806c068ee6c548f10de7fe1 (diff)
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Document the layout of the address space, borrowing heavily from
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=180109
Diffstat (limited to 'sys/amd64')
-rw-r--r--sys/amd64/include/vmparam.h14
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sys/amd64/include/vmparam.h b/sys/amd64/include/vmparam.h
index b0914953e248..755a7d9824e0 100644
--- a/sys/amd64/include/vmparam.h
+++ b/sys/amd64/include/vmparam.h
@@ -148,8 +148,18 @@
/*
* Virtual addresses of things. Derived from the page directory and
* page table indexes from pmap.h for precision.
- * Because of the page that is both a PD and PT, it looks a little
- * messy at times, but hey, we'll do anything to save a page :-)
+ *
+ * 0x0000000000000000 - 0x00007fffffffffff user map
+ * 0x0000800000000000 - 0xffff7fffffffffff does not exist (hole)
+ * 0xffff800000000000 - 0xffff804020100fff recursive page table (512GB slot)
+ * 0xffff804020101000 - 0xfffffeffffffffff unused
+ * 0xffffff0000000000 - 0xffffff7fffffffff 512GB direct map mappings
+ * 0xffffff8000000000 - 0xfffffffe7fffffff unused (506GB)
+ * 0xfffffffe80000000 - 0xffffffffffffffff 6GB kernel map
+ *
+ * Within the kernel map:
+ *
+ * 0xffffffff80000000 KERNBASE
*/
#define VM_MAX_KERNEL_ADDRESS KVADDR(KPML4I, NPDPEPG-1, NPDEPG-1, NPTEPG-1)