linux-kernel - Re: PAGE_SIZE Availability Inconsistency

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Message-ID: <45ECD03F.2040008@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:21:51 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	dmlb2000@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PAGE_SIZE Availability Inconsistency

David Miller wrote:
>>>
>> Thanks, but that still leaves PAGE_SIZE available for some
>> architectures and not for others shouldn't this be moved inside
>> __KERNEL__ in i386 and x86_64 then?
> 
> I definitely think so.

It definitely should, especially on x86-64, where the page size isn't 
guaranteed by the ABI (on i386, the ABI guarantees a 4K page size; on 
x86-64 it can be up to 64K.)

	-hpa
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