Dear Tim Roberts,
>What??? PAGE_MASK should equal the size of a physical memory page in
>bytes, minus one. It varies based on the processor, but on most of the
>systems where Linux runs, PAGE_MASK should be 0xfff (4095 decimal)
>
>--
>Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
If I do not remember wrongly, PAGE_MASK is definded as ~(PAGE_SIZE-1). It's the
high bits of memory that defines the page address and ignores offset in pages.
So
in a 4k pagesize system as default, PAGE_MASK = ~0xfff, not 0xfff.
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Daniel(解利军)
CESC Lab, Zhejiang University
2005-12-29
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