Re: Is there anyway to use 4M pages on x86 linux in user level?

From: Brian Gerst (bgerst@didntduck.org)
Date: Fri Jan 18 2002 - 08:46:33 EST

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DervishD wrote:
>
> Hi Yinlei :)
>
> >Since x86 architecutre has a 4M page feature
>
> I may certainly be wrong but... is not 4k OR 16M the page size on
> x86 arch? I didn't know about 4M page. Could you send me the GTD
> settings for that? (Just curiosity :)))

The large page size is 4MB, except in PAE mode where they are 2MB.
Normal pages are always 4KB. Noting in the GDT affects the page size.

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