From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752379AbXCHR7V (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 12:59:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752382AbXCHR7U (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 12:59:20 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:52498 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752379AbXCHR7U (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 12:59:20 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 11:57:29 -0600 From: Anton Blanchard To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Arjan van de Ven , Roman Zippel , David Brown , Linux Kernel Mailing List , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: PAGE_SIZE Availability Inconsistency Message-ID: <20070308175729.GA7054@kryten> 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45F0426C.8000009@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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