From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 4level page tables for Linux II
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:57:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2004.10.14.16.57.23.884792@smurf.noris.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041013092221.471f7232.ak@suse.de>
Hi, Andi Kleen wrote:
> And when you cannot remember the few names for the level you
> better shouldn't touch VM at all.
Disagree. Rather strongly in fact.
It's probably OK if you already know the stuff and have been hacking
Linux' mm for years already, but if you try to learn how things work by
actually looking at the code..?
Just number them. Let pd1 point to pages, pd2 to pd1 entries, and so on.
(Level zero is the actual pages.)
--
Matthias Urlichs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-14 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-13 3:36 Albert Cahalan
2004-10-13 7:22 ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-13 21:42 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-10-14 16:57 ` Matthias Urlichs [this message]
2004-10-15 1:55 ` Andrew Grover
2004-10-15 13:28 ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-15 13:55 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-10-15 23:39 ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-17 5:54 ` Ingo Molnar
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-12 13:59 4level page tables for Linux Andi Kleen
2004-10-12 18:48 ` Dave Hansen
2004-10-12 19:03 ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-12 19:08 ` 4level page tables for Linux II Andi Kleen
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