From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: John Smith <penguin2047@hotmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PTE --> 2 values??
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 22:03:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031124060357.GW22764@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY10-DAV61cvpzTHkz0000160a@hotmail.com>
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 11:50:15PM -0500, John Smith wrote:
> I saw that Linux is using a 3 level page tables, pgd, pmd and pte. The value
> in the pte can refer to an actual page in memory OR an address on the swap
> device. How does the kernel distinguish the two values such that if the
> value is refering to an swap device address, it will not lookup the address
> in memory ??
There is a present bit. All other bits are available to the OS when the
present bit says "not present". On many machines, Linux' 3-level tree is
a pure software construct, and the processor is informed of translations
in other ways (e.g. inverted pagetables, direct TLB insertion).
-- wli
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2003-11-24 4:50 PTE --> 2 values?? John Smith
2003-11-24 6:03 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
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