From: aftnix@gmail.com (AFT)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: explanation of __va() and __pa() macros.
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:49:07 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <y5nfftxo.fsf@s1.test.com> (raw)
Hi,
My source is from 2.6 git tree. In LDD3 its said that a logical address
is mapped to physical address and vice versa by the macros __va() and
__pa().
In my source tree they are defined as follows:
<include/asm-generic/page.h>
#define __va(x) ((void *)((unsigned long) (x)))
#define __pa(x) ((unsigned long) (x))
I'm not actually understanding how these "cute" looking casting is
performing "address mapping". I thought address mapping involves more
complex operations.
cheers.
aft
next reply other threads:[~2012-06-22 11:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-22 11:49 AFT [this message]
2012-06-22 12:06 ` explanation of __va() and __pa() macros Vlad Dogaru
2012-06-22 14:38 ` AFT
2012-06-22 12:12 ` Bjørn Mork
2012-06-22 14:45 ` AFT
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