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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 21:08:53 +0000
Subject: Re: REAL_PTRS_PER_PMD and TIF_32BIT
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On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:03:23 -0500
Ed L Cashin <ecashin@uga.edu> wrote:

> I notice that in the kernel "pmd" is used to mean both the second
> level page table, consisting of 2048 four-byte entries, and also as
> shorthand for one of those entries.  Did you intentionally use
> all-caps for "PMD" to distinguish it from a second-level page table
> entry?

It's just sylistic for C code that CPP macros are capitalized,
that's all.