Are you sure it's used in vmalloc?
2008/6/14 Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx>:
Hi!
sounds like "fixed mapping"..... area defined somewhere inside vmalloc
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In setup_arch() I saw:
>
> paging_init();
>
> /*
> * NOTE: On x86-32, only from this point on, fixmaps are ready for use.
> */
>
> What is the meaning of "fixmaps" as I saw it occasionally used in kernel source?
reserved virtual address range...IIRC they are for things like atomic
mapping...I can't recall the exact meanings...
regards,
Mulyadi.
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