From: Vivek Kutal <vivek.kutal@gmail.com>
To: Fawad Lateef <fawadlateef@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Need for SHIFT and MASK
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 18:43:36 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b9a245c10510100613m442d93f4gbbec00799dc3b1b9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1e62d1370510091721m530327a9v546da9115a861bdf@mail.gmail.com>
> And as far as SHIFT, MASK, SIZE macros are concerned they are used in
> creating Page Translation Tables and also used to get the translation
> from linear to physical
how are these macros used to create page translation tables (functions
like pgd_alloc(), pmd_alloc() & pte_alloc() are used for this
purpose)and the translation (virtual/linear to physical)is done by
the processor and not by the OS.
--
Thanks and Regards
Vivek Kutal
http://vivekkutal.blogspot.com
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to
live forever."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-10 13:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-09 12:02 Vivek Kutal
2005-10-09 12:23 ` Ingo Oeser
2005-10-09 18:40 ` Vivek Kutal
2005-10-10 0:21 ` Fawad Lateef
2005-10-10 13:13 ` Vivek Kutal [this message]
2005-10-10 16:49 ` Fawad Lateef
2005-10-10 14:37 ` Denis Vlasenko
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