Re: [PATCH 1/2] Report the pagesize backing a VMA in /proc/pid/smaps

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Tue Sep 23 2008 - 08:16:16 EST


> > 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, please let me know getpagesize() function return to 4k or 64k on ppc64.
I think the PageSize line of the /proc/pid/smap and getpagesize() result should be matched.

otherwise, enduser may be confused.



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