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> 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." - 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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