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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-09-09 01:28:14 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-09-09 01:28:14 +0200
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Merge tag 'docs-5.15-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull more documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "Another collection of documentation patches, mostly fixes but also includes another set of traditional Chinese translations" * tag 'docs-5.15-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: docs: pdfdocs: Fix typo in CJK-language specific font settings docs: kernel-hacking: Remove inappropriate text docs/zh_TW: add translations for zh_TW/filesystems docs/zh_TW: add translations for zh_TW/cpu-freq docs/zh_TW: add translations for zh_TW/arm64 docs/zh_CN: Modify the translator tag and fix the wrong word Documentation/features/vm: correct huge-vmap APIs Documentation: block: blk-mq: Fix small typo in multi-queue docs Documentation: in_irq() cleanup Documentation: arm: marvell: Add 88F6825 model into list Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide: Replace broken link to PGP path finder Documentation: locking: fix references Documentation: Update details of The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide docs: x86: Remove obsolete information about x86_64 vmalloc() faulting Documentation/process/applying-patches: Activate linux-next man hyperlink
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@@ -140,10 +140,6 @@ The direct mapping covers all memory in the system up to the highest
memory address (this means in some cases it can also include PCI memory
holes).
-vmalloc space is lazily synchronized into the different PML4/PML5 pages of
-the processes using the page fault handler, with init_top_pgt as
-reference.
-
We map EFI runtime services in the 'efi_pgd' PGD in a 64Gb large virtual
memory window (this size is arbitrary, it can be raised later if needed).
The mappings are not part of any other kernel PGD and are only available