Re: virt_to_page() is only for kernel adress right?

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--- Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@polymtl.ca>
wrote:
> Another question with kernel virtual memory. Is "mem_map"
> global table storing
> pages that represent the whole kernel virtual area? In
> fact I don't see if it is
> just for kernel pages or for both (kernel and user).

mem_map has one entry for each phyiscal page in
the system. It does not represent any virtual
address space.

-Ravi.


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