wiki:VASFeatures

Virtual address spaces per architecture

Below are the various situations as dictated by hardware of each supported architecture and as currently used by HelenOS. The address space split is described from the kernel's point of view.


amd64

48-bit virtual address width

Starting address Size HW limitation
FFFF800000000000 128 TiB none
0000800000000000 16776960 TiB VA hole(1)
0000000000000000 128 TiB none
  1. depends on implementation, but in practice current implementations use 48 bits

arm32

Starting address Size HW limitation
80000000 2 GiB high vectors at fixed VA(1)
00000000 2 GiB low vectors at fixed VA(2)
  1. 0xFFFF0000 - 0xFFFF001C
  2. 0x00000000 - 0x0000001C

ia32

Starting address Size HW limitation
80000000 2 GiB none
00000000 2 GiB none

ia64

Itanium

(3 + 51)-bit virtual address width

Starting address Size HW limitation
FFFC000000000000 1 PiB VRN 7, high
E004000000000000 2046 PiB VA hole
E000000000000000 1 PiB VRN 7, low
DFFC000000000000 1 PiB VRN 6, high
C004000000000000 2046 PiB VA hole
C000000000000000 1 PiB VRN 6, low
BFFC000000000000 1 PiB VRN 5, high
A004000000000000 2046 PiB VA hole
A000000000000000 1 PiB VRN 5, low
9FFC000000000000 1 PiB VRN 4, high
8004000000000000 2046 PiB VA hole
8000000000000000 1 PiB VRN 4, low
7FFC000000000000 1 PiB VRN 3, high
6004000000000000 2046 PiB VA hole
6000000000000000 1 PiB VRN 3, low
5FFC000000000000 1 PiB VRN 2, high
4004000000000000 2046 PiB VA hole
4000000000000000 1 PiB VRN 2, low
3FFC000000000000 1 PiB VRN 1, high
2004000000000000 2046 PiB VA hole
2000000000000000 1 PiB VRN 1, low
1FFC000000000000 1 PiB VRN 0, high
0004000000000000 2046 PiB VA hole
0000000000000000 1 PiB VRN 0, low

Itanium 2

Starting address Size HW limitation
E000000000000000 2 EiB VRN 7
C000000000000000 2 EiB VRN 6
A000000000000000 2 EiB VRN 5
8000000000000000 2 EiB VRN 4
6000000000000000 2 EiB VRN 3
4000000000000000 2 EiB VRN 2
2000000000000000 2 EiB VRN 1
0000000000000000 2 EiB VRN 0

mips32

Starting address Size HW limitation
E0000000 512 MiB kseg3, kernel
C0000000 512 MiB ksseg, kernel
A0000000 512 MiB kseg1, kernel uncached(1)
80000000 512 MiB kseg0, kernel identity(2)
00000000 2 GiB kuseg, uspace
  1. maps to physical 0, uncached, bypasses TLB
  2. maps to physical 0, cacheable, bypasses TLB

ppc32

Starting address Size HW limitation
80000000 2 GiB none
00000000 2 GiB none

sparc64

UltraSPARC I, II, IIi

44-bit virtual address width

Starting address Size HW limitation
FFFFF80000000000 8 TiB kernel(1)
0000080000000000 16777200 TiB VA hole(2)
0000000000000000 8 TiB kernel(1)

UltraSPARC III, IIIi, IV and IV+

64-bit virtual address width

Starting address Size HW limitation
0000000000000000 16 EiB kernel(1)

UltraSPARC T1, T2

48-bit virtual address width

Starting address Size HW limitation
FFFF800000000000 128 TiB kernel(1)
0000800000000000 16776960 TiB VA hole(3), (4)
0000000000000000 128 TiB kernel(1)
  1. both kernel and uspace run in separated 64-bit address spaces
  2. no code within 4GiB reach of the VA hole on UltraSPARC I and II
  3. no code within 4GiB reach of the VA hole on T1
  4. no code within 8KiB below VA hole on T2
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