linux-kernel - Re: PAGE_SIZE Availability Inconsistency

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Message-Id: <20070308.202718.68040662.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:27:18 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hpa@...or.com
Cc:	anton@...ba.org, 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

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:18:28 -0800

> Anton Blanchard wrote:
> > The other option is to create a v3 swap format that doesnt use any
> > PAGE_SIZE parameters.
> 
> The best thing to do would be to look for the magic both at PAGE_SIZE 
> (for compatibility) and MIN_PAGE_SIZE (for sanity.)

That might work, but a large part of me says to go for v3
and do it cleanly.
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