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authorJungseok Lee <jays.lee@samsung.com>2014-05-12 10:40:44 +0100
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2014-07-23 15:27:28 +0100
commit4edae01e89100821d167076dec6ecdd40318b7c1 (patch)
treed8a982c4bde5a8ad8fca6900d44ff90bcb5686cf /Documentation
parente41ceed035966d593ae34c3de33924965a6b9fba (diff)
arm64: Add a description on 48-bit address space with 4KB pages
This patch adds memory layout and translation lookup information about 48-bit address space with 4K pages. The description is based on 4 levels of translation tables. Signed-off-by: Jungseok Lee <jays.lee@samsung.com> Reviewed-by: Sungjinn Chung <sungjinn.chung@samsung.com> Acked-by: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com> Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Tested-by: Jungseok Lee <jungseoklee85@gmail.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm64/memory.txt59
1 files changed, 51 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/memory.txt b/Documentation/arm64/memory.txt
index d50fa618371b..4c720d698e8e 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm64/memory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/arm64/memory.txt
@@ -8,10 +8,11 @@ This document describes the virtual memory layout used by the AArch64
Linux kernel. The architecture allows up to 4 levels of translation
tables with a 4KB page size and up to 3 levels with a 64KB page size.
-AArch64 Linux uses 3 levels of translation tables with the 4KB page
-configuration, allowing 39-bit (512GB) virtual addresses for both user
-and kernel. With 64KB pages, only 2 levels of translation tables are
-used but the memory layout is the same.
+AArch64 Linux uses either 3 levels or 4 levels of translation tables with
+the 4KB page configuration, allowing 39-bit (512GB) or 48-bit (256TB)
+virtual addresses, respectively, for both user and kernel. With 64KB
+pages, only 2 levels of translation tables, allowing 42-bit (4TB)
+virtual address, are used but the memory layout is the same.
User addresses have bits 63:39 set to 0 while the kernel addresses have
the same bits set to 1. TTBRx selection is given by bit 63 of the
@@ -21,7 +22,7 @@ The swapper_pgd_dir address is written to TTBR1 and never written to
TTBR0.
-AArch64 Linux memory layout with 4KB pages:
+AArch64 Linux memory layout with 4KB pages + 3 levels:
Start End Size Use
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -48,7 +49,34 @@ ffffffbffc000000 ffffffbfffffffff 64MB modules
ffffffc000000000 ffffffffffffffff 256GB kernel logical memory map
-AArch64 Linux memory layout with 64KB pages:
+AArch64 Linux memory layout with 4KB pages + 4 levels:
+
+Start End Size Use
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+0000000000000000 0000ffffffffffff 256TB user
+
+ffff000000000000 ffff7bfffffeffff ~124TB vmalloc
+
+ffff7bffffff0000 ffff7bffffffffff 64KB [guard page]
+
+ffff7c0000000000 ffff7dffffffffff 2TB vmemmap
+
+ffff7e0000000000 ffff7ffffbbfffff ~2TB [guard, future vmmemap]
+
+ffff7ffffa000000 ffff7ffffaffffff 16MB PCI I/O space
+
+ffff7ffffb000000 ffff7ffffbbfffff 12MB [guard]
+
+ffff7ffffbc00000 ffff7ffffbdfffff 2MB fixed mappings
+
+ffff7ffffbe00000 ffff7ffffbffffff 2MB [guard]
+
+ffff7ffffc000000 ffff7fffffffffff 64MB modules
+
+ffff800000000000 ffffffffffffffff 128TB kernel logical memory map
+
+
+AArch64 Linux memory layout with 64KB pages + 2 levels:
Start End Size Use
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -75,7 +103,7 @@ fffffdfffc000000 fffffdffffffffff 64MB modules
fffffe0000000000 ffffffffffffffff 2TB kernel logical memory map
-Translation table lookup with 4KB pages:
+Translation table lookup with 4KB pages + 3 levels:
+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
|63 56|55 48|47 40|39 32|31 24|23 16|15 8|7 0|
@@ -90,7 +118,22 @@ Translation table lookup with 4KB pages:
+-------------------------------------------------> [63] TTBR0/1
-Translation table lookup with 64KB pages:
+Translation table lookup with 4KB pages + 4 levels:
+
++--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
+|63 56|55 48|47 40|39 32|31 24|23 16|15 8|7 0|
++--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
+ | | | | | |
+ | | | | | v
+ | | | | | [11:0] in-page offset
+ | | | | +-> [20:12] L3 index
+ | | | +-----------> [29:21] L2 index
+ | | +---------------------> [38:30] L1 index
+ | +-------------------------------> [47:39] L0 index
+ +-------------------------------------------------> [63] TTBR0/1
+
+
+Translation table lookup with 64KB pages + 2 levels:
+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
|63 56|55 48|47 40|39 32|31 24|23 16|15 8|7 0|