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[PATCH] x86_64: Add a guard page at the end of the 47bit address space

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This works around a bug in the AMD K8 CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Andi Kleen 2005-05-16 21:53:20 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
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commit 637716a382
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@ -159,9 +159,9 @@ static inline void clear_in_cr4 (unsigned long mask)
/* /*
* User space process size. 47bits. * User space process size. 47bits minus one guard page.
*/ */
#define TASK_SIZE (0x800000000000UL) #define TASK_SIZE (0x800000000000UL - 4096)
/* This decides where the kernel will search for a free chunk of vm /* This decides where the kernel will search for a free chunk of vm
* space during mmap's. * space during mmap's.