From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30506 invoked by alias); 8 Mar 2007 17:59:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 30497 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Mar 2007 17:59:32 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ozlabs.org (HELO ozlabs.org) (203.10.76.45) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:59:24 +0000 Received: by ozlabs.org (Postfix, from userid 1010) id 46FB5DDEA2; Fri, 9 Mar 2007 04:59:19 +1100 (EST) Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:59:00 -0000 From: Anton Blanchard To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Arjan van de Ven , Roman Zippel , David Brown , Linux Kernel Mailing List , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: PAGE_SIZE Availability Inconsistency Message-ID: <20070308175729.GA7054@kryten> References: <9c21eeae0703051555x1884fd7cse7968a71ec04eb27@mail.gmail.com> <20070306092917.GA5226@infradead.org> <200703080318.04631.zippel@linux-m68k.org> <20070308090031.GB7373@infradead.org> <1173369229.3550.2.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20070308160852.GB9916@infradead.org> <45F0426C.8000009@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45F0426C.8000009@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-03/txt/msg00141.txt.bz2 > By the way, it's a massive snafu that the swap area magic number is > dependent on PAGE_SIZE. There is absolutely no good reason for that. Agreed, its been a big problem booting between 4kB and 64kB kernels on ppc64. Anton