[klibc] Re: [PATCH] get rid of asm/page.h usage

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Feb 21 10:57:13 PST 2005


Olaf Hering wrote:
>  On Mon, Feb 21, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> 
>>Olaf Hering wrote:
>>
>>>I think there is no need to special case some archs, just get the thing
>>>during runtime on all archs.
>>
>>The problem is that MMAP2_SHIFT != __getpageshift() on sparc32, that is 
>>at least my understanding.
> 
> 
> uclibc and glibc have this comment, and they force the size to 12:
> 
> This is always 12, even on architectures where PAGE_SHIFT != 12
> 

Hm.  I'm not sure if that's right.  I think I'd have to look at the 
kernel code in more detail.

I'll look at it and perhaps MMAP2_SHIFT should be hard-wired to 12.

	-hpa



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