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From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Ben Johnson <ben@blarg.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linear vs. logical addresses?  how does cpu interpret kernel addrs?
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:48:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1562370000.1063759683@[10.10.2.4]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030916154747.A22526@blarg.net>

> 1) When I am referencing a pointer in the kernel, is the value of that
> pointer variable interpreted by the cpu as a logical or linear address?
> 
> 2) if I have two overlapping data/stack segments presently selected,
> each with a different base, how does the cpu know which segment/base
> address to use to get the linear address?

IIRC, all the base segments are 0, so none of this matters ;-)

M.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-17  0:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-16 22:47 Ben Johnson
2003-09-17  0:48 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2003-09-17  0:54   ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-17  0:58     ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-17  1:44       ` Ben Johnson
2003-09-17  1:55         ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-17  2:07           ` Ben Johnson
2003-09-17  2:10             ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-17  2:32               ` Ben Johnson
2003-09-17  2:10         ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-09-17 11:39 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-17 19:42   ` Ben Johnson
2003-09-17 20:05     ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-17 20:44       ` Jamie Lokier

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