Re: Calculating kernel logical address ..

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Sun, 08 Sep 2002 22:28:10 -0700 (PDT)


From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 07:17:30 +0200

On Monday 09 September 2002 07:00, David S. Miller wrote:
> Actually, KSEG0 the most Linux friendly design in the world
> particularly in 64-bit mode.

That's easy to say until you try and work with it (I assume you have,
and forgot). Just try to do a 3G/1G split on it, for example.

Maybe you missed the "64-bit mode" part of what I said. :-)

In 64-bit mode there is no need to do any kind of split.
You just use the KSEG mapping with full cache coherency for
all of physical memory as the PAGE_OFFSET area.

I forget if it was KSEG0 or some other number, but I know it
works.


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