Re: [PATCH]Documentation:Chinese translation of Documentation/arm64/memory.txt

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Sat Oct 27 2012 - 11:46:26 EST


On 27 October 2012 06:11, Ninja Tekkaman <tekkamanninja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a question about the original document.
> what is the exact meaning about the "memory" in
> "ffffffc000000000 ffffffffffffffff 256GB memory"
> Can I treat it as "kernel logical address space" ? Or maybe It can be
> modified to âkernelâ ï

It's the linear mapping of the RAM used by the kernel. So you could
say "kernel logical memory map" (I wouldn't say address space as this
is wider and it includes vmalloc, modules etc.)

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Catalin
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