From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [i386] Questions regarding provisional page tables initialization
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:02:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jed4zbeqa4.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070701203833.GA3498@Ahmed> (Ahmed S. Darwish's message of "Sun\, 1 Jul 2007 23\:38\:33 +0300")
"Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@gmail.com> writes:
> page_pde_offset = (__PAGE_OFFSET >> 20)
> movl %ecx,(%edx) /* Store identity PDE entry */
> movl %ecx,page_pde_offset(%edx) /* Store kernel PDE entry */
>
> Why the pde_offset is PAGE_OFFSET >> 20 instead of PAGE_OFFSET >> 22 ?
> * 22 to right shift the whole page_shift (12) and pgdir_shift (10) bits.
4 is the element size.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-01 22:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-01 20:38 [i386] Questions regarding provisional page tables initialization Ahmed S. Darwish
2007-07-01 22:02 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2007-07-01 22:19 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-02 1:13 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2007-07-02 9:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-07-02 10:23 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2007-07-02 11:34 ` Brian Gerst
2007-07-02 15:43 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2007-07-02 10:43 ` Andi Kleen
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