Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Subject | Re: [i386] Questions regarding provisional page tables initialization | Date | Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:02:27 +0200 |
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"Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@gmail.com> writes:
> page_pde_offset = (__PAGE_OFFSET >> 20) > movl %ecx,(%edx) /* Store identity PDE entry */ > movl %ecx,page_pde_offset(%edx) /* Store kernel PDE entry */ > > Why the pde_offset is PAGE_OFFSET >> 20 instead of PAGE_OFFSET >> 22 ? > * 22 to right shift the whole page_shift (12) and pgdir_shift (10) bits.
4 is the element size.
Andreas.
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