Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Luck, Tony" <> | Subject | RE: Is it possible to use 8K page size on a i386 pc? | Date | Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:19:54 -0700 |
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H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Followup to: <200208271914.g7RJEQE07821@devserv.devel.redhat.com> > By author: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > You may run into trouble with something that calls mmap with > > a fixed address, with executables which have text sizes of > > odd number of small pages. I was told that these problems are > > fairly rare. > > > > Only 50% of all binaries are affected... that's fairly rare :)
The majority of x86 linux binaries run on ia64 with a 16K pagesize (admittedly with some not-so-pretty code to fudge mmap/munmap addresses ... but it is proof that you can reduce the problems to "fairly rare").
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