Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754791Ab2J1Cjk (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Oct 2012 22:39:40 -0400 Received: from mail-bk0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:44243 "EHLO mail-bk0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754588Ab2J1Cji convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Oct 2012 22:39:38 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20121024160253.GB6567@Super-MAGI> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 10:39:37 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH]Documentation:Chinese translation of Documentation/arm64/memory.txt From: Ninja Tekkaman To: Catalin Marinas Cc: Harry Wei , Greg-Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1000 Lines: 23 Thanks for your answer! So I will make a patch for it (in English and Chinese). For English patch ,if you like it, please acked it. 2012/10/27 Catalin Marinas : > On 27 October 2012 06:11, Ninja Tekkaman wrote: >> I have a question about the original document. >> what is the exact meaning about the "memory" in >> "ffffffc000000000 ffffffffffffffff 256GB memory" >> Can I treat it as "kernel logical address space" ? Or maybe It can be >> modified to “kernel” ? > > It's the linear mapping of the RAM used by the kernel. So you could > say "kernel logical memory map" (I wouldn't say address space as this > is wider and it includes vmalloc, modules etc.) > > -- > Catalin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/