linux-kernel - Re: PAGE_SIZE Availability Inconsistency

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Date:	Thu, 8 Mar 2007 09:00:31 +0000
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	David Brown <dmlb2000@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PAGE_SIZE Availability Inconsistency

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 03:18:04AM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tuesday 06 March 2007 10:29, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> > PAGE_SIZE should not be available at all.  Please use getpagesize()
> > instead.
> 
> While I agree, NBPG is a bit of a problem, although it's only needed for aout 
> coredumps AFAICT, but still needed to compile e.g. gdb.

So we should export this one with an arbitrary value (on multiple page
size architectures) and a warning, maybe even an __deprecated attached to
it.

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