From 9ca8dbcc65cfc63d6f5ef3312a33184e1d726e00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yunhong Jiang Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 12:17:53 -0700 Subject: Add the rt linux 4.1.3-rt3 as base Import the rt linux 4.1.3-rt3 as OPNFV kvm base. It's from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-rt-devel.git linux-4.1.y-rt and the base is: commit 0917f823c59692d751951bf5ea699a2d1e2f26a2 Author: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Date: Sat Jul 25 12:13:34 2015 +0200 Prepare v4.1.3-rt3 Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior We lose all the git history this way and it's not good. We should apply another opnfv project repo in future. Change-Id: I87543d81c9df70d99c5001fbdf646b202c19f423 Signed-off-by: Yunhong Jiang --- kernel/Documentation/arm64/memory.txt | 94 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 94 insertions(+) create mode 100644 kernel/Documentation/arm64/memory.txt (limited to 'kernel/Documentation/arm64/memory.txt') diff --git a/kernel/Documentation/arm64/memory.txt b/kernel/Documentation/arm64/memory.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d7273a5f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/kernel/Documentation/arm64/memory.txt @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ + Memory Layout on AArch64 Linux + ============================== + +Author: Catalin Marinas + +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 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 63:48 set to 0 while the kernel addresses have +the same bits set to 1. TTBRx selection is given by bit 63 of the +virtual address. The swapper_pg_dir contains only kernel (global) +mappings while the user pgd contains only user (non-global) mappings. +The swapper_pg_dir address is written to TTBR1 and never written to +TTBR0. + + +AArch64 Linux memory layout with 4KB pages + 3 levels: + +Start End Size Use +----------------------------------------------------------------------- +0000000000000000 0000007fffffffff 512GB user +ffffff8000000000 ffffffffffffffff 512GB kernel + + +AArch64 Linux memory layout with 4KB pages + 4 levels: + +Start End Size Use +----------------------------------------------------------------------- +0000000000000000 0000ffffffffffff 256TB user +ffff000000000000 ffffffffffffffff 256TB kernel + + +AArch64 Linux memory layout with 64KB pages + 2 levels: + +Start End Size Use +----------------------------------------------------------------------- +0000000000000000 000003ffffffffff 4TB user +fffffc0000000000 ffffffffffffffff 4TB kernel + + +AArch64 Linux memory layout with 64KB pages + 3 levels: + +Start End Size Use +----------------------------------------------------------------------- +0000000000000000 0000ffffffffffff 256TB user +ffff000000000000 ffffffffffffffff 256TB kernel + + +For details of the virtual kernel memory layout please see the kernel +booting log. + + +Translation table lookup with 4KB pages: + ++--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+ +|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: + ++--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+ +|63 56|55 48|47 40|39 32|31 24|23 16|15 8|7 0| ++--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+ + | | | | | + | | | | v + | | | | [15:0] in-page offset + | | | +----------> [28:16] L3 index + | | +--------------------------> [41:29] L2 index + | +-------------------------------> [47:42] L1 index + +-------------------------------------------------> [63] TTBR0/1 + + +When using KVM, the hypervisor maps kernel pages in EL2, at a fixed +offset from the kernel VA (top 24bits of the kernel VA set to zero): + +Start End Size Use +----------------------------------------------------------------------- +0000004000000000 0000007fffffffff 256GB kernel objects mapped in HYP -- cgit 1.2.3-korg