Lanttor <[email protected]> writes:

> In my understanding, the kernel page mapping depends on PAGE_OFFSET.
> For example, if PAGE_OFFSET is 0x00000000 (assuming 256M memory), the
> kernel virtual address will be at (0x00000000 - 0x10000000), right?

On m68k, the kernel virtual addresses are in a separate address space
from user space, thus the value of PAGE_OFFSET is somewhat arbitrary.

> Could this incur some side effect? I see the definition of PAGE_OFFSET
> is 0xc0000000 on much platforms.

On those platforms kernel and user space share the same address space,
and PAGE_OFFSET makes sure that they don't overlap.

Andreas.

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