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>>>>> "David" == David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com> writes: Jes> Hmmm, my brain has gotten ia64ified ;-) It's basically the normal Jes> mappings of the kernel, ie. the kernel text/data/bss segments as Jes> well as anything you do not get back as a dynamic mapping such as Jes> ioremap/vmalloc/kmap. David> I don't think it's safe to use virt_to_page() on static kernel David> addresses (text, data, and bss). For example, ia64 linux David> nowadays uses a virtual mapping for the static kernel memory, David> so it's not part of the identity-mapped segment. Mmmm good point, I stand corrected. It doesn't really make sense to do it anyway, but maybe it's worth underlining in the doc if it hasn't been done so already. Cheers, Jes - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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