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On 05/03/2018 02:52 PM, Igor Stoppa wrote:
> At the end of the summit, we agreed that I would go through the physmap.

Do you mean the kernel linear map?  That's just another name for the
virtual address that you get back from page_to_virt():

	int *j = page_to_virt(vmalloc_to_page(i));