Linux的初始页表

LOWMEM,是相对于HIGHMEM而言,其实就是内核态直接映射的物理内存空间的大小,一般为896MB。

这里只是粗略地估计了一下,取1GB。

LOWMEM_PAGES代表了LOWMEM区域对应了多少内存页,1GB / 4KB = 256K,即需要256K个页表项来描述内核空间

   1: /* Number of possible pages in the lowmem region */
   2: LOWMEM_PAGES = (((1<<32) - __PAGE_OFFSET) >> PAGE_SHIFT)

 

计算一下,需要多少内存页来存放LOWMEM区域对应的内存页表项,有256个页表,每个页表占1页内存,需要256页,即256 * 4KB = 1MB来存放256个页表

   1: /* Enough space to fit pagetables for the low memory linear map */
   2: MAPPING_BEYOND_END = PAGE_TABLE_SIZE(LOWMEM_PAGES) << PAGE_SHIFT

其中,PAGE_TABLE_SIZE用来计算需要多少个页表来容纳这么多的页, 256K / 1K = 256,需要256个页表

   1: #if PTRS_PER_PMD > 1
   2: #define PAGE_TABLE_SIZE(pages) (((pages) / PTRS_PER_PMD) + PTRS_PER_PGD)
   3: #else
   4: #define PAGE_TABLE_SIZE(pages) ((pages) / PTRS_PER_PGD)
   5: #endif

下面的计算与上面是相同的, INIT_MAP_SIZE也是1MB

   1: /*
   2:  * Worst-case size of the kernel mapping we need to make:
   3:  * a relocatable kernel can live anywhere in lowmem, so we need to be able
   4:  * to map all of lowmem.
   5:  */
   6: KERNEL_PAGES = LOWMEM_PAGES
   7:  
   8: INIT_MAP_SIZE = PAGE_TABLE_SIZE(KERNEL_PAGES) * PAGE_SIZE
   9: RESERVE_BRK(pagetables, INIT_MAP_SIZE)

RESERVE_BRK的作用是在.brk区域预留1MB大小的空间,并且设置pagetables为该区域的起始位置的标号名称。

   1: /*
   2:  * Reserve space in the brk section.  The name must be unique within
   3:  * the file, and somewhat descriptive.  The size is in bytes.  Must be
   4:  * used at file scope.
   5:  *
   6:  * (This uses a temp function to wrap the asm so we can pass it the
   7:  * size parameter; otherwise we wouldn't be able to.  We can't use a
   8:  * "section" attribute on a normal variable because it always ends up
   9:  * being @progbits, which ends up allocating space in the vmlinux
  10:  * executable.)
  11:  */
  12: #define RESERVE_BRK(name,sz)                        \
  13:     static void __section(.discard.text) __used notrace        \
  14:     __brk_reservation_fn_##name##__(void) {                \
  15:         asm volatile (                        \
  16:             ".pushsection .brk_reservation,\"aw\",@nobits;" \
  17:             ".brk." #name ":"                \
  18:             " 1:.skip %c0;"                    \
  19:             " .size .brk." #name ", . - 1b;"        \
  20:             " .popsection"                    \
  21:             : : "i" (sz));                    \
  22:     }
posted @ 2013-12-21 11:21  Daniel King  阅读(991)  评论(0编辑  收藏  举报