Re: Doubt regarding page traversal

2009-10-27 Thread Joel Fernandes
Please help me to figure out some basic concepts in MM. From the books, i learned that VMA to PA translation consists of traversing the full page directory, which consists of Global Directory, Middle Directory and Page Table. I have also read that, VMA to PA translation is done using a

Doubt regarding page traversal

2009-10-23 Thread Shameem Ahamed
Hi Friends, Please help me to figure out some basic concepts in MM. From the books, i learned that VMA to PA translation consists of traversing the full page directory, which consists of Global Directory, Middle Directory and Page Table. I have also read that, VMA to PA translation is done

Re: Doubt regarding page traversal

2009-10-23 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
Hi... I am getting rusty in memory management, but hopefully I still recall most of them correctly... On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Shameem Ahamed shameem.aha...@yahoo.com wrote: If there is a macro, why we need code for traversing all the page directories ?.  This macro is a simple math,