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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:05:39 -0800

> Okay, what I'll do is that I'll hard-code 12 on i386, SPARC and ARM; on 
> other architectures I'll use getpagesize().  Of course, on 64-bit 
> architectures this is not an issue; there I just call sys_mmap.

Oh and BTW if you use 12 it will break when executing on a
64-bit kernel, where PAGE_SHIFT is variable and starting at
13.