Re: What does pkmap stand for?

["Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>]

> Really stupid question I know. I'm writing the chapter on high memory
> management and so far it is making perfect sense except I can't find what
> pkmap or kmap stands for. I'm guessing kmap means Kernel Map but pkmap
> could be anything. current guesses are
> 
> Permanent Kernel Map
> Page Kernel Map
> PK Means Anything Pleasing
> 
> Extensive google and mailing list searching showed up nothing :-( . Any
> help or plausible suggestions are welcome

I think it's "persistant kernel map". You can't hold the atomic version
over a schedule (unless you catch faults & patch it up).

M.

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