ppc manual paging question
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Oct 22 14:50:52 EST 2007
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 12:03 +0800, Wang, Baojun wrote:
> hi,
>
> I've got some qeustion about ppc(ppc44x) paging:
>
> how can I manually map a virtual address to a physical address through a
> specific pgd? How does ppc translate virt address to physical one? I think
> besides from tlb, the CPU will search the page table entries via the pgd, can
> I alter the pgd value to change the memory translation? under i386, it's very
> simple, we can just rewrite %%cr3, it even could invalidate all tlb entries
> automatically, how can I do this under ppc? I've tried rewrite
> current->mm->pgd and current->thread.pgdir, but sounds like it still not
> insufficiant, am I missing something vital?
What the heck are you trying to do ? Please explain and I'll tell you
how to do it properly :-)
Cheers,
Ben.
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