linux-kernel - Re: PAGE_SIZE Availability Inconsistency

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Date:	Thu, 8 Mar 2007 20:43:25 -0600
From:	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	hpa@...or.com, hch@...radead.org, arjan@...radead.org,
	zippel@...ux-m68k.org, dmlb2000@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gdb@...rceware.org
Subject: Re: PAGE_SIZE Availability Inconsistency


Hi,

> I might be missing something but doesn't this break every
> SWAP partition that was created with something other than
> MIN_PAGE_SIZE?

It does. I was thinking we could work around it in ppc64 (64kB is quite
new), but I forgot there are options on sparc64 to change the page size :)

The other option is to create a v3 swap format that doesnt use any
PAGE_SIZE parameters.

Anton
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