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From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
To: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: gbakos@cfa.harvard.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel page size explanation
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 19:37:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d5p8aw4h.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a87484905072118207a85970e@mail.gmail.com> (Jesper Juhl's message of "22 Jul 2005 02:22:04 +0100")

On 22 Jul 2005, Jesper Juhl suggested tentatively:
> You can
>  A) look in the .config file for your current kernel (if your arch
> supports different page sizes at all).
>  B) You can use the  getpagesize(2) syscall at runtime. getpagesize()
> returns the nr of bytes in a page - man getpagesize - I'm not sure
> that's universally supported though.
>  C) You can look at /proc/cpuinfo or /proc/meminfo , IIRC some archs
> report page size there - not quite sure, can't remember...

D) getconf PAGE_SIZE should work, although what it does on arches
   with variable page sizes isn't clear to me.

-- 
`But of course, GR is the very best relativity for the masses.'
 --- Wayne Throop

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-07-24 18:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-21 23:31 kernel page size explanation Gaspar Bakos
2005-07-22  1:20 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-07-23 22:09   ` Gaspar Bakos
2005-07-24 18:37   ` Nix [this message]
2005-07-24 19:01     ` VASM
2005-07-24 19:24       ` Fawad Lateef
2005-07-24 21:28       ` Nix
2005-07-25 13:42         ` VASM
2005-07-25 15:03           ` Valdis.Kletnieks
     [not found] <4sSO3-58H-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-07-22  0:15 ` Robert Hancock

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