On Wednesday 22 August 2012, Catalin Marinas wrote: > But what's more important - moving this wrapper to glibc causes issues > with the page size. We support both 4KB and 64KB pages on 64-bit systems > (the latter without compat support). The kernel is in a better position > to do the shift by a compile-time constant. Glibc would need to enquire > the actual page size to do the shift before calling sys_mmap_pgoff. If > we assume in glibc that the shift is always 12, we need another wrapper > in the kernel anyway for 64KB page configuration. So passing the offset > in bytes worked best for us. Right, the kernel interface should really be independent of the page size, as sys_mmap2 normally is, and sys_mmap2 is not provided here. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
