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From: "Peter Teoh" <htmldeveloper@gmail.com>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: How to get the PTE pointer for a linear address?
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:07:13 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <804dabb00810170007hacb0e97rdbd251664bb06de4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

If I allocate kernel memory via alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL),  and convert
that struct page pointer to linear address via page_address(), how do
I derive the PTE pointer of that page?

Following the source code, I did the following:

        pgd_t *pgd = pgd_offset_k(address);

        if (pgd_none(*pgd)) {
                printk("no pgd ");
                return 0;
        }
        pud = pud_offset(pgd, address);
        if (pud_none(*pud)) {
                printk("no pud ");
                return 0;
        }
        pmd = pmd_offset(pud, address);
        if (pmd_none(*pmd)) {
                printk("no pmd ");
                return 0;
        }

        pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, address);

===============> and in between here, the PTE pointer is returned
(from pte_offset_map())?   And so the PTE structure (pte_t) should be
*pte?

        pte_unmap(pte);

I suspect something is not right?

Thanks.
-- 
Regards,
Peter Teoh

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