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From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Report the pagesize backing a VMA in /proc/pid/smaps
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> > The corollary is that someone running with a 64K base page kernel may be
> > surprised that the pagesize is always 4K. However I'll check if there is
> > a simple way of checking out if the MMU size differs from PAGE_SIZE.
> 
> Sure.  If it isn't easy, the best thing to do is probably just to
> document the "interesting" behavior.

Dave, please let me know getpagesize() function return to 4k or 64k on ppc64.
I think the PageSize line of the /proc/pid/smap and getpagesize() result should be matched.

otherwise, enduser may be confused.