Hi, On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 02:06:18PM +0000, Markos Chandras wrote: > Are you referring to programs hard coding the page size to 4k instead of > using the getpagesize()? Well yes this could be a problem. But is that a > real problem? We are changing the default value so whoever has such an old > userland can easily switch to the 4k page size. It may also be a good > opportunity to expose such application and get the fixed properly :) But if > that's not acceptable, we can drop the patch. Paul what do you think? Not so long ago there was an issue with Debian where Iceweasel or Spidermonkey failed on MIPS/Loongson because of its 8K page size (the userspace assumed 4K). You will get such issues as long as x86 dominates, it's not a matter of "old userland". A.
