linux-kernel - Re: [Provisional Page Table] Why the linear address ranges starting both from 0 and PAGE_OFFSET are mapped to the same physical address range in the provisional page table?

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Date:	Sat, 3 Dec 2011 01:54:34 -0500
From:	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
To:	zhihua che <zhihua.che@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Provisional Page Table] Why the linear address ranges starting
 both from 0 and PAGE_OFFSET are mapped to the same physical address range in
 the provisional page table?

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 12:27 AM, zhihua che <zhihua.che@...il.com> wrote:
> Here is another relating question. Why the provisional page table is
> stored at initial_page_table while final page table is store at
> swapper_pg_dir, I think only one page directory table is enough,
> because the two page table are not effective in the same time, it's
> enough to construct the provisional page table at swapper_pg_dir, then
> clear it and construct the final page table. And I find that in the
> previous linux kernel, only swapper_pg_dir is present.

See commits fd89a137924e0710078c3ae855e7cec1c43cb845 and
b40827fa7268fda8a62490728a61c2856f33830b for the explanation of why
they are seperate.

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Brian Gerst
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