From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: n0ano@indstorage.com Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 15:15:56 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Pagesize is different between IA32 and IA64 Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org David- Yeah, as I said to Hideki I'll look into this. It might take a day or so, I can only do it in the evenings and I spent all last night configuring a `named' server (talk about a painfull experience :-( On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 03:58:06PM -0800, David Mosberger wrote: > But I think the page size problem with brk() is real and can be fixed > quite easily. If I understood correctly, the problem is that doing > something along the lines of: > > x = ALIGN_TO_4K(sbrk(8192)); > memset(x, 0xff, 4096); > brk(x); > brk(x+4096); > > might preserve the contents of the page at X on under the ia32 > subsystem of ia64 when in fact it should be cleared to zero. > > Would you be able/interested into looking into this? > > --david -- Don Dugger "Censeo Toto nos in Kansa esse decisse." - D. Gale n0ano@indstorage.com Ph: 303/652-0870x117