Re: Need for SHIFT and MASK

[Vivek Kutal]

> And as far as SHIFT, MASK, SIZE macros are concerned they are used in
> creating Page Translation Tables and also used to get the translation
> from linear to physical

how are these macros used to create page translation tables (functions
like pgd_alloc(), pmd_alloc() & pte_alloc() are used for this
purpose)and the  translation (virtual/linear to physical)is done by
the processor and not by the OS.


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