From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.106]) by e32.co.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8MGegrR011996 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:40:43 -0400 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (d03av02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.168]) by d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.1) with ESMTP id m8MGmcWC203398 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:48:38 -0600 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m8MMmT1E025724 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:48:29 -0600 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Report the pagesize backing a VMA in /proc/pid/smaps From: Dave Hansen In-Reply-To: <20080922162152.GB7716@csn.ul.ie> References: <1222047492-27622-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <1222047492-27622-2-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <1222098955.8533.50.camel@nimitz> <20080922162152.GB7716@csn.ul.ie> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:48:18 -0700 Message-Id: <1222102098.8533.62.camel@nimitz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Mel Gorman Cc: LKML , Linux-MM List-ID: On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 17:21 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > The corollary is that someone running with a 64K base page kernel may be > surprised that the pagesize is always 4K. However I'll check if there is > a simple way of checking out if the MMU size differs from PAGE_SIZE. Sure. If it isn't easy, the best thing to do is probably just to document the "interesting" behavior. -- Dave -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org