From: Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] kernel - kmap/KADDR ?
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 11:50:06 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.58.0411271141430.6130@malasada.lava.net> (raw)
Hi,
I'm confused about the usage of kmap and KADDR in the code. I
had assumed that kmap() was used to map a page into kernel memory,
and kunmap() was used to unmap that page. I just noticed that the
KADDR() macro is used in the port code in a similar way. The
port code calls KADDR on a physical addr, and then starts reading
and writing the returned address.
Is this the correct usage of KADDR? If so, isnt kmap() completely
redudant then? Also, if this is the expected behavior of KADDR,
then how are platforms that have large memories supported? (ie.
if you have more phys memory than free space above KZERO). kmap()
could handle this (since there is a kunmap, and only a limited
number of active mappings), but KADDR does not have any unmap
facility and must rely on a large static mapping of memory.
Tim N.
next reply other threads:[~2004-11-27 21:50 UTC|newest]
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2004-11-27 21:50 Tim Newsham [this message]
2004-11-28 0:54 ` Russ Cox
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