From: Anton Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 15:42:36 -0600
> > The easiest way to fix this would be to always park the swap magic at > > the offset of the smallest page size in use, which is 4K. This is > > analogous how the offset for the ext2/3 superblock got fixed at 1K -- > > for 1K blocks, it's the second block, but for larger blocks, it's part > > of the first block. If we fix the offset of the swap magic at 4096 > > minus the offset that's already there, it will always fall in the first > > page regardless of page size. > > Yeah that makes sense. I gave it a go by creating a MIN_PAGE_SIZE > define, and allowing an architecture to override it if required. I might be missing something but doesn't this break every SWAP partition that was created with something other than MIN_PAGE_SIZE? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
