From: Andi Kleen Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 04:53:20 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] x86_64: Add a guard page at the end of the 47bit address space X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=637716a3825e186555361574aa1fa3c0ebf8018b;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git [PATCH] x86_64: Add a guard page at the end of the 47bit address space This works around a bug in the AMD K8 CPUs. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/processor.h b/include/asm-x86_64/processor.h index f0581c35628e..9f74a286ef11 100644 --- a/include/asm-x86_64/processor.h +++ b/include/asm-x86_64/processor.h @@ -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 * space during mmap's.