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To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
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Subject: Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE)
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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Jul 7 2007 00:26, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>> Subject: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE)
> 
> I wonder what happens if the soft page size gets set to 2048 bytes :)

That won't work, because the smallest granularity the x86
MMU supports is 4kB.

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