29. x86_64 Support

• 29.1. AMD64 Specific Boot Options
  • 29.1.1. Machine check
  • 29.1.2. APICs
  • 29.1.3. Timing
  • 29.1.4. Idle loop
  • 29.1.5. Rebooting
  • 29.1.6. NUMA
  • 29.1.7. ACPI
  • 29.1.8. PCI
  • 29.1.9. IOMMU (input/output memory management unit)
  • 29.1.10. Miscellaneous
  • 29.1.11. AMD SEV (Secure Encrypted Virtualization)
• 29.2. General note on [U]EFI x86_64 support
  • 29.2.1. Mechanics
• 29.3. Memory Management
  • 29.3.1. Complete virtual memory map with 4-level page tables
  • 29.3.2. Complete virtual memory map with 5-level page tables
• 29.4. 5-level paging
  • 29.4.1. Overview
  • 29.4.2. Enabling 5-level paging
  • 29.4.3. User-space and large virtual address space
• 29.5. Fake NUMA For CPUSets
• 29.6. Firmware support for CPU hotplug under Linux/x86-64
• 29.7. Configurable sysfs parameters for the x86-64 machine check code
• 29.8. Using FS and GS segments in user space applications
  • 29.8.1. Common FS and GS usage
  • 29.8.2. Reading and writing the FS/GS base address
  • 29.8.3. Accessing FS/GS base with arch_prctl()
  • 29.8.4. Accessing FS/GS base with the FSGSBASE instructions
  • 29.8.5. Compiler support for FS/GS based addressing
  • 29.8.6. FS/GS based addressing with inline assembly
• 29.9. Flexible Return and Event Delivery (FRED)
  • 29.9.1. Overview
  • 29.9.2. Software based event dispatching
  • 29.9.3. Full supervisor/user context
  • 29.9.4. LKGS
  • 29.9.5. Stack levels