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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	klibc@zytor.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sys_mmap2 on different architectures
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:32:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060223173216.GA20322@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43FD2D96.7030600@zytor.com>

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 07:35:50PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> This is what I've found so far: (64-bit architectures excluded)
> 
> 	arm		- N/A (PAGE_SHIFT == 12)
> 	arm26		- MMAP2_PAGE_SHIFT == 12
> 	cris		- MMAP2_PAGE_SHIFT == PAGE_SHIFT (13)
> 	frv		- MMAP2_PAGE_SHIFT == 12
> 	h8300		- N/A (PAGE_SHIFT == 12)
> 	i386		- N/A (PAGE_SHIFT == 12)
> 	m32r		- N/A (PAGE_SHIFT == 12)
> 	m68k		- MMAP2_PAGE_SHIFT == PAGE_SHIFT (variable)
> 	mips		- MMAP2_PAGE_SHIFT == PAGE_SHIFT (variable)

A variable which happens to be fixed to 12 in practice.  As explained by
Ben the API is only relevant to 32-bit kernels and afaik PAGE_SHIFT
other than 12 has only been successfully been tested on 64-bit kernels.

  Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-23 17:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-22 21:45 sys_mmap2 on different architectures H. Peter Anvin
2006-02-22 21:54 ` David S. Miller
2006-02-22 22:00   ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-02-23  0:05   ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-02-23  0:40     ` David S. Miller
2006-02-23  0:41     ` David S. Miller
2006-02-23  0:14 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-02-23  0:22   ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-02-23  0:43   ` David S. Miller
2006-02-23  0:59     ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-02-23  1:03       ` David S. Miller
2006-02-23  1:06         ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-02-23 17:39     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-02-23 17:47       ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-02-23  2:56 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-02-23  3:35   ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-02-23 17:32     ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2006-02-23 17:43       ` H. Peter Anvin

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