Re: PAGE_SIZE Availability Inconsistency

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Thu Mar 08 2007 - 16:10:30 EST


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
David Miller wrote:

Thanks, but that still leaves PAGE_SIZE available for some
architectures and not for others shouldn't this be moved inside
__KERNEL__ in i386 and x86_64 then?

I definitely think so.

It definitely should, especially on x86-64, where the page size isn't guaranteed by the ABI (on i386, the ABI guarantees a 4K page size; on x86-64 it can be up to 64K.)


Wouldn't that be ia64?


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