From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is it possible to use 8K page size on a i386 pc?
Date: 27 Aug 2002 17:06:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <akh45g$jdl$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200208271914.g7RJEQE07821@devserv.devel.redhat.com
Followup to: <200208271914.g7RJEQE07821@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
By author: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> You may run into trouble with something that calls mmap with
> a fixed address, with executables which have text sizes of
> odd number of small pages. I was told that these problems are
> fairly rare.
>
Only 50% of all binaries are affected... that's fairly rare :)
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-28 0:01 UTC|newest]
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2002-08-27 19:14 ` Is it possible to use 8K page size on a i386 pc? Pete Zaitcev
2002-08-28 0:06 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2002-08-28 0:19 Luck, Tony
2002-08-28 0:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-09-10 16:34 ` Eric W. Biederman
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2002-08-27 18:50 chen, xiangping
2002-08-27 19:19 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-08-28 0:27 ` Daniel Phillips
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