Re: What's a "pmd"?

Joerg Pommnitz (pommnitz@heidelbg.ibm.com)
Fri, 15 Mar 1996 16:56:15 +0100 (CET)

>
> I am getting a whole slew of messages about bad ones (pmds) when I reboot
> from 1.3.74. The two normal messages about termination appear, there are a
> few seconds of pause, and then a string of messages like
>
> use_pmd (bad pmd <an address>)
>
> Seems to work correctly after the batch of grey-hair generators though. I
> have never seen this before...
>
> Harvey
>

I see the same thing here.

A pmd is a page middle directory, I think. The strange thing is,
that the intel cpu's have a two level paging scheme, so there shouldn't
be a pmd at all.
I think, Linus will know.

-- 
Best regards
    Joerg
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