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From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: What does pkmap stand for?
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:56:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <148890000.1043258207@titus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301221744080.2402-100000@skynet>

> Really stupid question I know. I'm writing the chapter on high memory
> management and so far it is making perfect sense except I can't find what
> pkmap or kmap stands for. I'm guessing kmap means Kernel Map but pkmap
> could be anything. current guesses are
> 
> Permanent Kernel Map
> Page Kernel Map
> PK Means Anything Pleasing
> 
> Extensive google and mailing list searching showed up nothing :-( . Any
> help or plausible suggestions are welcome

I think it's "persistant kernel map". You can't hold the atomic version
over a schedule (unless you catch faults & patch it up).

M.

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-22 17:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-22 17:49 Mel Gorman
2003-01-22 17:56 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2003-01-23 19:26   ` Mel Gorman

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