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2<previous description obsolete, deleted>
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4Virtual memory map with 4 level page tables:
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60000000000000000 - 00007fffffffffff (=47 bits) user space, different per mm
7hole caused by [48:63] sign extension
8ffff800000000000 - ffff87ffffffffff (=43 bits) guard hole, reserved for hypervisor
9ffff880000000000 - ffffc7ffffffffff (=64 TB) direct mapping of all phys. memory
10ffffc80000000000 - ffffc8ffffffffff (=40 bits) hole
11ffffc90000000000 - ffffe8ffffffffff (=45 bits) vmalloc/ioremap space
12ffffe90000000000 - ffffe9ffffffffff (=40 bits) hole
13ffffea0000000000 - ffffeaffffffffff (=40 bits) virtual memory map (1TB)
14... unused hole ...
15ffffec0000000000 - fffffc0000000000 (=44 bits) kasan shadow memory (16TB)
16... unused hole ...
17ffffff0000000000 - ffffff7fffffffff (=39 bits) %esp fixup stacks
18... unused hole ...
19ffffffff80000000 - ffffffffa0000000 (=512 MB)  kernel text mapping, from phys 0
20ffffffffa0000000 - ffffffffff5fffff (=1525 MB) module mapping space
21ffffffffff600000 - ffffffffffdfffff (=8 MB) vsyscalls
22ffffffffffe00000 - ffffffffffffffff (=2 MB) unused hole
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24The direct mapping covers all memory in the system up to the highest
25memory address (this means in some cases it can also include PCI memory
26holes).
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28vmalloc space is lazily synchronized into the different PML4 pages of
29the processes using the page fault handler, with init_level4_pgt as
30reference.
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32Current X86-64 implementations only support 40 bits of address space,
33but we support up to 46 bits. This expands into MBZ space in the page tables.
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35->trampoline_pgd:
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37We map EFI runtime services in the aforementioned PGD in the virtual
38range of 64Gb (arbitrarily set, can be raised if needed)
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400xffffffef00000000 - 0xffffffff00000000
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42-Andi Kleen, Jul 2004
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