Re: ZONE_HIGHMEM query

[Parag Warudkar]

KernelTrap has an good article explaining the details of HIGHMEM - http://kerneltrap.org/node/2450

Parag


> Hello Everyone ,
> All books that I have read say that the concept of ZONE_HIGHMEM is
> introduced because some architectures cannot directly map memory
> beyond 896MB (x86).
> 
> My question is What is direct mapping(does it mean, same virtual
> address and physical address) and why cant a architecture directly map
> a particular region in the memory?
> 
> 
> 
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> Vivek Kutal
> http://vivekkutal.blogspot.com
> 
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