From: Avi Kivity <avi@argo.co.il>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
dmlb2000@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PAGE_SIZE Availability Inconsistency
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 23:08:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45F07B63.1000105@argo.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45ECD03F.2040008@zytor.com>
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.)
>
Wouldn't that be ia64?
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-08 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-05 23:55 PAGE_SIZE Availability Inconsistency David Brown
2007-03-05 23:59 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-06 0:01 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-03-06 0:03 ` David Miller
2007-03-06 0:04 ` David Brown
2007-03-06 0:26 ` David Miller
2007-03-06 2:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-03-08 21:08 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2007-03-08 22:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-03-19 19:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-06 9:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-03-08 2:18 ` Roman Zippel
2007-03-08 5:28 ` David Brown
2007-03-08 8:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-03-08 9:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-03-08 15:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-03-08 16:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-03-08 16:21 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-03-08 17:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-03-08 17:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-03-08 17:57 ` Anton Blanchard
2007-03-08 18:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-03-08 21:42 ` Anton Blanchard
2007-03-08 21:46 ` Anton Blanchard
2007-03-08 21:48 ` David Miller
2007-03-09 2:43 ` Anton Blanchard
2007-03-09 4:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-03-09 4:27 ` David Miller
2007-03-09 4:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-03-09 4:36 ` David Miller
2007-03-21 2:12 ` Anton Blanchard
2007-03-21 2:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-03-08 22:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-03-08 21:03 ` David Brown
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