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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: phillips@arcor.de
Cc: imran.badr@cavium.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Calculating kernel logical address ..
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2002 17:01:51 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020907.170151.84915731.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E17nUee-0006Lc-00@starship>

   From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
   Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 03:44:53 +0200
   
   It looks good to me.  Note that somebody has added some new voodoo in 2.5
   so that page table pages can be in highmem, with the result that the above
   code won't work in 2.5, whether or not highmem is configured.

The example given won't work for kernel text/data addresses on a few
platforms (sparc64 is one).  And in fact on MIPS the KSEG0 pages lack
any page tables.

There are only three things one can portably obtain a physical address
of:

1) A user address, for a known MM

2) a kmalloc/get_free_page kernel page

3) A vmalloc page

For anything else you're in non-portablt land, including and
in partiular:

1) kernel stack addresses
2) addresses within the main kernel image text/data/bss

  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-08  0:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-04 22:00 BYTE Unix Benchmarks Version 3.6 Paolo Ciarrocchi
2002-09-04 22:44 ` Cliff White
2002-09-04 23:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-09-05 13:48 ` side-by-side " bert hubert
2002-09-05 15:11   ` venom
2002-09-06  3:23   ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-06  3:34     ` Calculating kernel logical address Imran Badr
2002-09-07  1:44       ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-08  0:01         ` David S. Miller [this message]
2002-09-08 18:44           ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-09  5:00             ` David S. Miller
2002-09-09  5:17               ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-09  5:28                 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-06  7:09     ` side-by-side Re: BYTE Unix Benchmarks Version 3.6 bert hubert
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-06 15:44 Calculating kernel logical address Manfred Spraul
2002-09-06 17:13 ` Imran Badr
2002-09-07  1:57   ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-09 17:06 Imran Badr
2002-09-09 17:29 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-09-09 17:23   ` David S. Miller
2002-09-09 17:34     ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-09-09 17:40     ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-09 17:31   ` Imran Badr
2002-09-09 18:00     ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-09-09 18:12       ` Imran Badr
2002-09-09 18:27         ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-09 18:41           ` Imran Badr
2002-09-09 21:55         ` Alan Cox
2002-09-09 22:52           ` Imran Badr
2002-09-09 23:09             ` Alan Cox
2002-09-09 18:13       ` Jesse Barnes
2002-09-09 18:25         ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-09 19:40           ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-09 20:41             ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-10  6:43               ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-10  7:12                 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-09 18:42         ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-10  7:03           ` Gerd Knorr
2002-09-09 18:16       ` Kurt Ferreira
2002-09-09 18:17       ` David S. Miller
2002-09-09 18:17       ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-09 18:43         ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-09-09 18:50           ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-09 18:57             ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-09-09 18:08     ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-09 18:23       ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-09 18:49         ` Imran Badr
2002-09-09 18:46           ` David S. Miller
2002-09-09 19:06           ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-09 19:14             ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-09 19:23               ` Imran Badr
2002-09-09 21:02 Manfred Spraul
2002-09-09 21:07 ` Imran Badr
2002-09-09 21:19 Manfred Spraul
2002-09-09 21:47 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-10 17:01   ` Manfred Spraul

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