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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: do_mmu_update
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:18:56 -0800
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Furquan Shaikh wrote:
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>
> Can you please explain a bit more about it? Isnt this the default for 
> the switch case where matches with any of the l1, l2, l3 are not 
> found. what does this default of /not_a_pt /signify

You can use do_mmu_update to write a pte entry in a page which is not 
(yet) considered to be a pagetable.

    J