Re: Questions on one PowerPC assembly instruction from hash_page

2007-06-18 Thread gshan
Mikael Pettersson wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:33:22 +0800, gshan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I can't understand the following instructions from arch/ppc/mm/hashtable.S::hash_page. If I got the right design, the following instruction is to get the PMD (Page Middle Descritor) because Linux f

Re: Questions on one PowerPC assembly instruction from hash_page

2007-06-18 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:33:22 +0800, gshan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't understand the following instructions from > arch/ppc/mm/hashtable.S::hash_page. If I got the right design, the > following instruction is to get the PMD (Page Middle Descritor) because > Linux for 32-bits PowerPC cut