Re: [i386] Questions regarding provisional page tables initialization

[Andreas Schwab]

"Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> yes, but isn't the displacement here (0x007) a _bytes_ displacement ?. so
> effectively, %ecx now contains physical address of pg0 + 7bytes. Is it A 
> meaningful place/address ?.

It's not pg0 + 7bytes, it is pg0 plus 3 flag bits.  Since a page address
is always page aligned, the low bits are reused for flags.

Andreas.

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