From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Venkatram Tummala <venkatram867@gmail.com>
Cc: Chetan Nanda <chetannanda@gmail.com>,
Joel Fernandes <agnel.joel@gmail.com>,
Frank Hu <frank.hu.2001@gmail.com>,
hayfeng Lee <teklife.kernel@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@zh-kernel.org,
kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org
Subject: Re: why choose 896MB to the start point of ZONE_HIGHMEM
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:04:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BBC2086.6090708@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <h2pacff6c2b1004062257mc8552d81u33322c43e47502c9@mail.gmail.com>
On 04/06/2010 10:57 PM, Venkatram Tummala wrote:
> Just a note Chetan.
>
> We can't exactly say that we require "page table settings" to map that
> 896 MB of physical ram. It is an identity mapped segment (1-1 mapping).
> So, we dont require the "page tables". Virtual address will be equal to
> Physical Address + Page Offset. It is just an addition of offset
>
No, we still need page tables for the identity-mapped segment.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-06 14:37 why choose 896MB to the start point of ZONE_HIGHMEM hayfeng Lee
2010-04-06 15:02 ` Joel Fernandes
2010-04-06 18:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-06 19:20 ` Frank Hu
2010-04-06 19:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-06 20:01 ` Joel Fernandes
2010-04-06 20:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2010-04-06 23:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-07 1:47 ` Xianghua Xiao
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2010-04-07 2:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2010-04-07 12:10 ` Xianghua Xiao
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2010-04-07 17:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-08 2:23 ` Nobin Mathew
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2010-04-07 5:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2010-04-07 6:04 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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2010-04-07 14:11 ` tek-life
2010-04-06 20:15 ` Frank Hu
2010-04-06 20:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-07 12:16 ` Krzysztof Halasa
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