Peter Anvin says: > 0xffff880000000000 is the lowest usable address because we have > agreed to leave 0xffff800000000000-0xffff880000000000 for the > hypervisor or other non-OS uses. Let's call this out in the documentation. This came up during the kernel address sanitizer discussions where it was proposed to use this area for other kernel things. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140918195606.841389D2@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
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