Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Dec 1999 15:04:31 +0100 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: Ok, making ready for pre-2.4 and code-freeze.. |
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On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 10:36:37AM +1300, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> > Is it a good idea to expect userspace to assume PAGE_SIZE/PAGE_SHIFT are > > constants? Don't some architectures have variable page sizes? > > For userspace mappings -- no. > > In theory some architectures can support this (MIPS?) but I don't > know if we ever will...
The plan is support larger page sizes for MIPS but not in a way that is visible to userspace but only use the available page sizes to reduce the number of TLB operations.
Ralf
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