On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:05:48AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >No, no no. We should never export PAGE_SIZE. We might export NBPG > >as deprecated symbol for gdb if it really needs it, but that should > >happen only on a.out systems, and it it should be a true constant, > >not depending on PAGE_SIZE. > > > >I've Cc'ed the gdb list on whether they have any comments on this > >issue. > > 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.
Yeah, now that you mention it I remember having problems with that in the past. We should probably create a new swap format that avoids this problem. I'll put it on my ever growing todo list. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
