about consistent_init

Chan Kim ckim at etri.re.kr
Wed May 21 22:20:47 EDT 2014


Hello,
In http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c?v=3.3#L162, in line 208, 
Could anybody kindly explain why it increases the variable 'base' by PMD_SIZE?
Is the consistent memory chunck initialized by PMD_SIZE? 
Thanks,
Chan


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