From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261528AbVGXTYs (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Jul 2005 15:24:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261526AbVGXTYs (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Jul 2005 15:24:48 -0400 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.203]:5780 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261485AbVGXTYn convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Jul 2005 15:24:43 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=dOdM1chnyD1DQCfFZF4JUb//9vNVUX7f5UFJSLCrZnLgqfJiq7CuK3r0LURrMvUTpAPixsyNY9a5Vveymd/s7LT12ABCAa6/cIVO/6XP5TVtYCtRCgNtX6k/gXrrA72bMPzQGdtIlJYFGanE7nGmhUi40KkN2gia322PKLyXPR0= Message-ID: <1e62d13705072412247d6c3413@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 00:24:41 +0500 From: Fawad Lateef Reply-To: Fawad Lateef To: VASM Subject: Re: kernel page size explanation Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <4536bb7305072412011fbeaf59@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <9a87484905072118207a85970e@mail.gmail.com> <87d5p8aw4h.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> <4536bb7305072412011fbeaf59@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 7/25/05, VASM wrote: > i had one question > does the linux kernel support only one default page size even if the > processor on which it is working supports multiple ? > The PAGE_SIZE depends on the architecture and it do supports different page_sizes depending on the architecture (AFAIK for almost all supported architectures) -- Fawad Lateef