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Re: PAGE_SIZE Availability Inconsistency
- From: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba dot org>
- To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor dot com>
- Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead dot org>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan at infradead dot org>, Roman Zippel <zippel at linux-m68k dot org>, David Brown <dmlb2000 at gmail dot com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org>, gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 11:57:29 -0600
- Subject: Re: PAGE_SIZE Availability Inconsistency
- References: <9c21eeae0703051555x1884fd7cse7968a71ec04eb27@mail.gmail.com> <20070306092917.GA5226@infradead.org> <200703080318.04631.zippel@linux-m68k.org> <20070308090031.GB7373@infradead.org> <1173369229.3550.2.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20070308160852.GB9916@infradead.org> <45F0426C.8000009@zytor.com>
> By the way, it's a massive snafu that the swap area magic number is
> dependent on PAGE_SIZE. There is absolutely no good reason for that.
Agreed, its been a big problem booting between 4kB and 64kB kernels on
ppc64.
Anton