Re: PAGE_SIZE Availability Inconsistency

[David Brown]

On 3/8/07, Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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.

Okay this really seems like a couple of things need to happen, first
change swap dependency on PAGE_SIZE, then move the __KERNEL__ define
above the PAGE_SIZE and friends defines in the appropriate
asm-*/page.h files.

Do these tasks need to happen in this order? I haven't really looked
at the swap code at all...

Also, I'd be willing to help I've done kernel coding for experimental
projects and such but nothing for kernel.org so I might need some
shepherding.

- David Brown
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