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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	hch@infradead.org, arjan@infradead.org,
	        zippel@linux-m68k.org, dmlb2000@gmail.com,
	        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: PAGE_SIZE Availability Inconsistency
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 04:20:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45F0E014.8060907@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070309024324.GA24695@kryten>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-09  4:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <9c21eeae0703051555x1884fd7cse7968a71ec04eb27@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <20070306092917.GA5226@infradead.org>
     [not found]   ` <200703080318.04631.zippel@linux-m68k.org>
     [not found]     ` <20070308090031.GB7373@infradead.org>
     [not found]       ` <1173369229.3550.2.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
2007-03-08 16:08         ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-03-08 16:22           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-03-08 17:09           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-03-08 17:12             ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-03-08 17:59             ` Anton Blanchard
2007-03-08 18:06               ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-03-08 21:44                 ` Anton Blanchard
2007-03-08 21:47                   ` Anton Blanchard
2007-03-08 21:48                   ` David Miller
2007-03-09  2:44                     ` Anton Blanchard
2007-03-09  4:20                       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
     [not found]                         ` <20070308.202718.68040662.davem@davemloft.net>
2007-03-09  4:32                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-03-09  4:36                             ` David Miller
2007-03-21  2:12                             ` Anton Blanchard
2007-03-21  2:52                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-03-08 22:17                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-03-08 21:04               ` David Brown

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