From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: 20 Sep 2001 06:54:44 -0000 Message-ID: <20010920065444.10415.qmail@mailweb13.rediffmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: -__PAGE_OFFSET From: "amey d inamdar" Content-ID: Content-type: text/plain Content-Description: Body Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Hello everybody, While running through source of 2.4 kernel, in head.S, I found the line 86 : movl $pg0-__PAGE_OFFSET,%edi I am not getting, at this point there is no virtual address & $pg0 itself contains physical address of first page table, then why to subtract 3GB from the physical address? Thanx in anticipation. - Amey -- 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/