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Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 10:34:57 -0700
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
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To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Calculating kernel logical address ..
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> If you meant virt_to_phys(), this does not work on arbitrary
> kernel virtual addresses either only direct mapped ones
> (ie. kmalloc() or get_free_page() data).

Though maybe it should ... ;-) This doesn't seem like an
impossible modification, and would be most useful. If people
are concerned about speed, we could create __virt_to_phys
if you knew it was direct mapped ...

M.

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