Re: what is __pa(x)

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--- Ed L Cashin <ecashin@uga.edu> wrote:

> > Still some questions on 32bit 3G/1G mode, the 1G RAM
> does not mean
> > the machine must have physical 1G memory, it does
> matter if the
> > machine has less or more than 1G physical RAM, right?
> 
> I imagine that if you have, e.g., 768M of RAM, you would
> never use
> kernel virtual addresses greater than ...
> 
>   0xc0000000 + (768 * 1024 * 1024) = 0xf0000000

Addresses above this will still be used - for vmalloc.

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