* about PMD_SHIFT value (22 or 18?)
@ 2014-05-01 11:44 Chan Kim
2014-05-02 5:34 ` Chan Kim
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From: Chan Kim @ 2014-05-01 11:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kernelnewbies
Hi,
Hope someone could answer to this question..
As some of you know, SRMMU(Sparc Reference MMU in Sparc V8) uses top 8, 6, 6 bits of the linear address as PGT, PMD, PTE table index.
so PGDIR_SHIFT is 24 and PMD_SHIFT is 18, and PTE_SHIFT is 12. (page size 4096) These shift values are for getting the index to into each table.
But in http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_32.h#L35
#define PMD_SHIFT 22.
and in http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/arch/sparc/include/asm/page_32.h#L84
typedef struct { unsigned long pmdv[16]; } pmd_t;
Why is it like this? (those sources are for sparc)
I'm having some confusion from this..
Could someone please explain it or give me a good reference about this?
Best regards,
Chan
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* about PMD_SHIFT value (22 or 18?)
2014-05-01 11:44 about PMD_SHIFT value (22 or 18?) Chan Kim
@ 2014-05-02 5:34 ` Chan Kim
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From: Chan Kim @ 2014-05-02 5:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kernelnewbies
oh, I'm answerting to my own question again..I've beeing following the initial sparc page table setup.
Looks like the PMD table which has 64 entries are managed by 4 blocks of 16 entries and the allocation of PTE table is by each 16 entry-block at one time. This is populating only 1/4 of PMD table and connecting 16 64-entry PTE tables each time.
regards,
Chan
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?? : about PMD_SHIFT value (22 or 18?)
Hi,
Hope someone could answer to this question..
As some of you know, SRMMU(Sparc Reference MMU in Sparc V8) uses top 8, 6, 6 bits of the linear address as PGT, PMD, PTE table index.
so PGDIR_SHIFT is 24 and PMD_SHIFT is 18, and PTE_SHIFT is 12. (page size 4096) These shift values are for getting the index to into each table.
But in http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_32.h#L35
#define PMD_SHIFT 22.
and in http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/arch/sparc/include/asm/page_32.h#L84
typedef struct { unsigned long pmdv[16]; } pmd_t;
Why is it like this? (those sources are for sparc)
I'm having some confusion from this..
Could someone please explain it or give me a good reference about this?
Best regards,
Chan
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