From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Cc: bcrl@redhat.com, haveblue@us.ibm.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove __pte_offset
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 15:22:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030304152257.7b6d6e3f.akpm@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <629570000.1046819361@flay>
"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> wrote:
>
> >> ptes this time
> >
> > Isn't pte_to_pfn a better name? index doesn't have a type of data
> > implied, whereas pfn does. We have to make these distinctions clearer
> > as work like William's PAGE_SIZE is being done.
>
> For pte_index? Surely they're completely separate things?
Yes, they are. A pfn is a fairly distinct thing with "meaning".
> pte_index returns a virtual address offset into the pte, and
pte index into the pagetable page <thwap>
> pte_to_pfn returns a physical address?
pageframe number.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-04 23:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-04 23:00 [PATCH] remove __pgd_offset Dave Hansen
2003-03-04 23:02 ` [PATCH] remove __pmd_offset Dave Hansen
2003-03-04 23:03 ` [PATCH] remove __pte_offset Dave Hansen
2003-03-04 23:10 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2003-03-04 23:09 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-04 23:22 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-03-04 23:25 ` Dave Hansen
2003-03-04 23:26 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2003-03-04 23:29 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-04 23:57 ` Dave Hansen
2003-03-05 0:01 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-05 1:43 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-05 2:04 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-05 3:32 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-03-04 23:16 ` Dave Hansen
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