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SubjectRe: why choose 896MB to the start point of ZONE_HIGHMEM
On 04/06/2010 10:57 PM, Venkatram Tummala wrote:
> Just a note Chetan.
>
> We can't exactly say that we require "page table settings" to map that
> 896 MB of physical ram. It is an identity mapped segment (1-1 mapping).
> So, we dont require the "page tables". Virtual address will be equal to
> Physical Address + Page Offset. It is just an addition of offset
>

No, we still need page tables for the identity-mapped segment.

-hpa

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