From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
hch@infradead.org, arjan@infradead.org, zippel@linux-m68k.org,
dmlb2000@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: PAGE_SIZE Availability Inconsistency
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:12:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070321021202.GA11745@kryten> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45F0E309.70403@zytor.com>
Hi,
> The advantage would be that it wouldn't require a v3 for platforms for
> which MIN_PAGE_SIZE == PAGE_SIZE, which accounts for a very large
> percentage of systems.
>
> You still have to look for the darn magic in two places, so there is no
> reason for it to be different.
The problem is if you can hit in two places then what PAGE_SIZE should
you use to size the contents of the swap header while remaining backward
compatible.
Im leaning towards Dave suggestion of creating a clean v3 swap header.
Anton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-21 2:12 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
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 [this message]
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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