code location where memory for page structures is allocated.

[sandeep kumar]

Thank you Lamine,
now , i got it....


On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Karaoui mohamed lamine <moharaka at gmail.com>
wrote:

> mm/page_alloc.c
> AFAICC it's memmap_init_zone that initialize all pfns  of a zone to
> default values (setting the pages as reserved).
>
> Note that for the page structures we don't use the standard memory
> allocators (kmalloc, vmalloc, etc), we simply calculate the amount of
> memory that all the structures will hold in, and then allocate a
> corresponding range of memory.
>
> Hope that help.
> Regards.
>
> 2014-06-24 13:21 GMT+02:00 sandeep kumar <coolsandyforyou at gmail.com>:
> > hi Ayan
> >>>sparse_mem_maps_populate_node
> > NO, i want to see where we do allocation of all physical "struct page"
> > pointers.
> >
> > struct page[NR_PAGES]; kind of stuff
> >
> > thanks
> > sandeep
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 4:15 PM, AYAN KUMAR HALDER <ayankumarh at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 3:54 PM, sandeep kumar
> >> <coolsandyforyou at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi All
> >> >
> >> > For each physical page, there will be a corresponding "struct page"
> >> > Can anyone tell me, in ARM architecure the code location where "struct
> >> > page"
> >> > memory allocation happens..
> >> >
> >> >
> >> To give you a small pointer, the page tables are set in paging_init(),
> >> arch/arm/mm/mmu.c.
> >> Is this what you are looking for.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Ayan Kumar Halder
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > With regards,
> > Sandeep Kumar Anantapalli,
> >
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With regards,
Sandeep Kumar Anantapalli,
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