Re: [PATCH v1] Docs/mm: Fix a mistakes for pfn in page_tables.rst

From: Mike Rapoport
Date: Tue Oct 08 2024 - 12:22:04 EST


On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 12:10:50AM +0800, Pengyu Zhang wrote:
> The documentation incorrectly calculate the pfn value as 0x3fffff,
> which should be 0x3ffff instead.It is obtained by right-shifting
> 0xffffc000 by 14 bits.
>
> This patch corrects the value to prevent any potential confusion
> for developers referencing this document.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pengyu Zhang <zpenya1314@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> Documentation/mm/page_tables.rst | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/mm/page_tables.rst b/Documentation/mm/page_tables.rst
> index be47b192a596..e7c69cc32493 100644
> --- a/Documentation/mm/page_tables.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/mm/page_tables.rst
> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ address.
> With a page granularity of 4KB and a address range of 32 bits, pfn 0 is at
> address 0x00000000, pfn 1 is at address 0x00001000, pfn 2 is at 0x00002000
> and so on until we reach pfn 0xfffff at 0xfffff000. With 16KB pages pfs are
> -at 0x00004000, 0x00008000 ... 0xffffc000 and pfn goes from 0 to 0x3fffff.
> +at 0x00004000, 0x00008000 ... 0xffffc000 and pfn goes from 0 to 0x3ffff.
>
> As you can see, with 4KB pages the page base address uses bits 12-31 of the
> address, and this is why `PAGE_SHIFT` in this case is defined as 12 and
> --
> 2.25.1
>

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Sincerely yours,
Mike.