Merge remote-tracking branch 'rcu/rcu/next'

[karo-tx-linux.git] / Documentation / x86 / x86_64 / mm.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt
index 05712ac83e3826bfe7802e01932bde593128b129..c518dce7da4d62da22b192cbc3595ebf62ae3037 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ ffffec0000000000 - fffffc0000000000 (=44 bits) kasan shadow memory (16TB)
 ... unused hole ...
 ffffff0000000000 - ffffff7fffffffff (=39 bits) %esp fixup stacks
 ... unused hole ...
+ffffffef00000000 - ffffffff00000000 (=64 GB) EFI region mapping space
+... unused hole ...
 ffffffff80000000 - ffffffffa0000000 (=512 MB)  kernel text mapping, from phys 0
 ffffffffa0000000 - ffffffffff5fffff (=1525 MB) module mapping space
 ffffffffff600000 - ffffffffffdfffff (=8 MB) vsyscalls
@@ -32,11 +34,9 @@ reference.
 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.
 
-->trampoline_pgd:
-
-We map EFI runtime services in the aforementioned PGD in the virtual
-range of 64Gb (arbitrarily set, can be raised if needed)
-
-0xffffffef00000000 - 0xffffffff00000000
+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.
 
 -Andi Kleen, Jul 2004