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-rw-r--r--src/runtime/lfstack_64bit.go25
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/src/runtime/lfstack_64bit.go b/src/runtime/lfstack_64bit.go
index cf6c02895f..19d8045203 100644
--- a/src/runtime/lfstack_64bit.go
+++ b/src/runtime/lfstack_64bit.go
@@ -11,30 +11,17 @@ import "unsafe"
const (
// addrBits is the number of bits needed to represent a virtual address.
//
- // In Linux the user address space for each architecture is limited as
- // follows (taken from the processor.h file for the architecture):
- //
- // Architecture Name Maximum Value (exclusive)
- // ---------------------------------------------------------------------
- // amd64 TASK_SIZE_MAX 0x007ffffffff000 (47 bit addresses)
- // arm64 TASK_SIZE_64 0x01000000000000 (48 bit addresses)
- // ppc64{,le} TASK_SIZE_USER64 0x00400000000000 (46 bit addresses)
- // mips64{,le} TASK_SIZE64 0x00010000000000 (40 bit addresses)
- // s390x TASK_SIZE 1<<64 (64 bit addresses)
- //
- // These values may increase over time. In particular, ppc64
- // and mips64 support arbitrary 64-bit addresses in hardware,
- // but Linux imposes the above limits. amd64 has hardware
- // support for 57 bit addresses as of 2017 (56 bits for user
- // space), but Linux only uses addresses above 1<<47 for
- // mappings that explicitly pass a high hint address.
+ // See memLimitBits for a table of address space sizes on
+ // various architectures. 48 bits is enough for all
+ // architectures except s390x.
//
// On AMD64, virtual addresses are 48-bit (or 57-bit) numbers sign extended to 64.
// We shift the address left 16 to eliminate the sign extended part and make
// room in the bottom for the count.
//
- // On s390x, there's not much we can do, so we just hope that
- // the kernel doesn't get to really high addresses.
+ // On s390x, virtual addresses are 64-bit. There's not much we
+ // can do about this, so we just hope that the kernel doesn't
+ // get to really high addresses and panic if it does.
addrBits = 48
// In addition to the 16 bits taken from the top, we can take 3 from the