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From: jlight@srcit.stevens.edu (James Light)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Regarding enable paging code and swapper_pg_dir.
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 12:31:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110402163154.GC7686@stevens.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110402162534.GB7686@stevens.edu>

If you look at the 2.6.38 code for head.S, you may find the newer way it is
written to be a bit easier to read.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
25 /* Physical address */
26 #define pa(X) ((X) - __PAGE_OFFSET)

...

345 /*
346 * Enable paging
347 */
348        movl $pa(initial_page_table), %eax
349        movl %eax,%cr3          /* set the page table pointer.. */
350        movl %cr0,%eax
351        orl  $X86_CR0_PG,%eax
352        movl %eax,%cr0          /* ..and set paging (PG) bit */
353        ljmp $__BOOT_CS,$1f     /* Clear prefetch and normalize %eip */

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

     -James

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-02 16:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-01 20:07 Regarding enable paging code and swapper_pg_dir mindentropy
     [not found] ` <20110401211921.GH23673@stevens.edu>
     [not found]   ` <201104021333.21661.mindentropy@gmail.com>
2011-04-02 16:25     ` James Light
2011-04-02 16:31       ` James Light [this message]
2011-04-02 17:48       ` mindentropy
2011-04-02 20:52         ` James Light
2011-04-03 20:54           ` mindentropy
2011-04-04 21:07           ` mindentropy

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