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diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.rst b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.rst index 44856417e6a5..b792bbdc0b01 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.rst +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.rst @@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ Overview ======== -Original x86-64 was limited by 4-level paing to 256 TiB of virtual address +Original x86-64 was limited by 4-level paging to 256 TiB of virtual address space and 64 TiB of physical address space. We are already bumping into -this limit: some vendors offers servers with 64 TiB of memory today. +this limit: some vendors offer servers with 64 TiB of memory today. To overcome the limitation upcoming hardware will introduce support for 5-level paging. It is a straight-forward extension of the current page |