From: Alex Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [x86_64] Question about early page tables initialization
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 18:25:32 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87egq7dvwj.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
Hello All,
I have a question about page tables initialization in the
arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S
After we clear memory for page tables, there is code which
build PML4:
leal pgtable + 0(%ebx), %edi
leal 0x1007(%edi), %eax
movl %eax, 0(%edi)
Why there is offset 0x1007 instead just 0x7? 0x1007 is
4k + 7bit (PML4E) flags as i understand correctly. But
why we skip first 4k here?
Thank you.
next reply other threads:[~2015-02-03 12:25 UTC|newest]
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2015-02-03 12:25 Alex Kuleshov [this message]
2015-02-03 12:42 ` [x86_64] Question about early page tables initialization Oren Twaig
2015-02-03 13:00 ` Alexander Kuleshov
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