Re: [RFC][PATCH] make /proc/pid/pagemap work with huge pages and return page size

[Hans Rosenfeld]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 08:32:46AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> Were you able to find any other instances of these bitfields being used
> for kernel<->user communication?

I did not look at that.

> I thought you were going to check to
> see if we could depend on the layout, or if it changed between
> compilers.

But I looked at the ABI specification for i386, powerpc and sparc, where
the layout is defined for those architectures. Therefore I assume that
we can depend on the bitfield layout, as long as we use compilers that
adhere to the ABI specification of an architecture.


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