Re: PAGE_SIZE Availability Inconsistency

[H. Peter Anvin]

Anton Blanchard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I might be missing something but doesn't this break every
> > SWAP partition that was created with something other than
> > MIN_PAGE_SIZE?
>
> It does. I was thinking we could work around it in ppc64 (64kB is quite
> new), but I forgot there are options on sparc64 to change the page size :)
>
> The other option is to create a v3 swap format that doesnt use any
> PAGE_SIZE parameters.

The best thing to do would be to look for the magic both at PAGE_SIZE 
(for compatibility) and MIN_PAGE_SIZE (for sanity.)

	-hpa
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/