On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 03:55:06PM -0800, David Brown wrote: > I was rtfc'ing the code one day and noticed somethings about the > PAGE_SIZE define that is kinda inconsistent around its relative > location to the __KERNEL__ define. > > On some architectures the PAGE_SIZE is outside the __KERNEL__ define > (i386 and x86_64) and on others its inside the define (ia64 and > powerpc). I was wondering if this is because the powerpc and ia64 > architectures have dynamic page sizes so that's why they can't export > PAGE_SIZE outside __KERNEL__. > > I'm kinda wondering how I'm supposed to write portable user-space code > if I want to use the PAGE_SIZE define on different architectures.
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