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| author | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2019-10-29 04:43:29 -0600 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2019-10-29 04:43:29 -0600 |
| commit | 822bbba0cabb50825a0ce22707dc45eb82d02853 (patch) | |
| tree | ea61d4ca72cb60b4cae8e95f64eefa7cd2a36603 /Documentation/arm64/memory.rst | |
| parent | d41abfd7ae33cd3c1d9189438937d61cb75e690a (diff) | |
| parent | 7d194c2100ad2a6dded545887d02754948ca5241 (diff) | |
Merge tag 'v5.4-rc4' into docs-next
I need to pick up the independent changes made to
Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst to be able to merge further
work without creating a total mess.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/arm64/memory.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm64/memory.rst | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/memory.rst b/Documentation/arm64/memory.rst index b040909e45f8..02e02175e6f5 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/memory.rst +++ b/Documentation/arm64/memory.rst @@ -154,11 +154,18 @@ return virtual addresses to userspace from a 48-bit range. Software can "opt-in" to receiving VAs from a 52-bit space by specifying an mmap hint parameter that is larger than 48-bit. + For example: - maybe_high_address = mmap(~0UL, size, prot, flags,...); + +.. code-block:: c + + maybe_high_address = mmap(~0UL, size, prot, flags,...); It is also possible to build a debug kernel that returns addresses from a 52-bit space by enabling the following kernel config options: + +.. code-block:: sh + CONFIG_EXPERT=y && CONFIG_ARM64_FORCE_52BIT=y Note that this option is only intended for debugging applications |