On Friday 03 May 2002 21:47, Dave Engebretsen wrote:
> We don't need the reverse translation on iSeries as the kernel never
> knows about the actual hardware address, other than when putting an
> entry in the hardware page tables (processor and I/O).
So the kernel page tables are carrying what I'd call a logical address,
that is, zero-based, indexing your logical-to-physical table (physical
taken in a non-literal sense).
This would suggest that your current arrangement is a strict subset of
my current config_nonlinear design, flat table and all, but with
phys_to_pagenum defined as a compile-time error.
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