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Commit e72ef2d2 authored by Linus Walleij's avatar Linus Walleij Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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Documentation/mm: Initial page table documentation



This is based on an earlier blog post at people.kernel.org,
it describes the concepts about page tables that were hardest
for me to grasp when dealing with them for the first time,
such as the prevalent three-letter acronyms pfn, pgd, p4d,
pud, pmd and pte.

I don't know if this is what people want, but it's what I would
have wanted. The wording, introduction, choice of initial subjects
and choice of style is mine.

I discussed at one point with Mike Rapoport to bring this into
the kernel documentation, so here is a small proposal.

The current form is augmented in response to feedback from
Mike Rapoport, Matthew Wilcox, Jonathan Cameron, Kuan-Ying Lee,
Randy Dunlap and Bagas Sanjaya.

Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Link: https://people.kernel.org/linusw/arm32-page-tables


Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230614072548.996940-1-linus.walleij@linaro.org
parent d27e40b5
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