x86/doc: Remove obvious weirdnesses from the x86 MM layout documentation

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: aliguori@amazon.com
Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at
Cc: hughd@google.com
Cc: keescook@google.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt

 
-<previous description obsolete, deleted>
-
 Virtual memory map with 4 level page tables:
 
 0000000000000000 - 00007fffffffffff (=47 bits) user space, different per mm
@@ -49,8 +47,9 @@ ffffffffffe00000 - ffffffffffffffff (=2 MB) unused hole
 
 Architecture defines a 64-bit virtual address. Implementations can support
 less. Currently supported are 48- and 57-bit virtual addresses. Bits 63
-through to the most-significant implemented bit are set to either all ones
-or all zero. This causes hole between user space and kernel addresses.
+through to the most-significant implemented bit are sign extended.
+This causes hole between user space and kernel addresses if you interpret them
+as unsigned.
 
 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
@@ -60,9 +59,6 @@ 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.
 
-Current X86-64 implementations support up to 46 bits of address space (64 TB),
-which is our current limit. This expands into MBZ space in the page tables.
-
 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
@@ -74,5 +70,3 @@ following fixmap section.
 Note that if CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY is enabled, the direct mapping of all
 physical memory, vmalloc/ioremap space and virtual memory map are randomized.
 Their order is preserved but their base will be offset early at boot time.
-
--Andi Kleen, Jul 2004