From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:56:48 -0800 From: "Martin J. Bligh" Subject: Re: What does pkmap stand for? Message-ID: <148890000.1043258207@titus> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Mel Gorman , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > 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. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/