Re: pv_table/pv_entry

1999-06-02 Thread Arun Sharma
On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 11:16:32AM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote: > On Tue, 1 Jun 1999 18:08:35 -0700 > Arun Sharma wrote: > > > Going through the 4.4 BSD book, I learnt that the purpose of the pv_table > > is to be able to locate all the mappings to a given physical page. > > > > However, com

Re: pv_table/pv_entry

1999-06-02 Thread Jason Thorpe
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999 18:08:35 -0700 Arun Sharma wrote: > Going through the 4.4 BSD book, I learnt that the purpose of the pv_table > is to be able to locate all the mappings to a given physical page. > > However, comparing this to the Linux approach, which chains vm_area_struct > (analogous

Re: pv_table/pv_entry

1999-06-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Going through the 4.4 BSD book, I learnt that the purpose of the pv_table :is to be able to locate all the mappings to a given physical page. : :However, comparing this to the Linux approach, which chains vm_area_struct :(analogous to vm_map_entry in FreeBSD) together to locate the shared :mapping