Re: PAE xen + linux kernel boots ...

[Scott Parish <srparish@us.ibm.com>]

That's what i thought. So, for example, why does pfn_pte() call
pfn_to_mfn() where pfn_pte_ma() does not. I bet i'm missing some
trivial thing, but this just seems backwards.

sRp

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:22:53PM -0700, Kip Macy wrote:

> ma == machine address 
> physical address is the logical offset in the allocated address space - machine 
> address is the actual page frame in RAM.
> 
> 
> 			-Kip
> 
> 
> 					
> 
> 
> On Wed, 4 May 2005, Scott Parish wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 04:03:05PM +0200, Gerd Knorr wrote:
> > 
> > > All the p??_val() functions have a separate _ma() version which
> > > doesn't do the machine to physical translation
> > 
> > What does "ma" stand for anyway?
> > 
> > sRp
> > 
> > 
> 
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