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[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 <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andi Kleen 20 years ago
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      include/asm-x86_64/processor.h

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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.