On Tue, 26 Aug 2014, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > FWIW, I've been always using the 16k page size exclusively with my 64-bit > userland and my SWARM board using the SB-1/BCM1250 processor (with either > endianness) and never had issues even with stuff as intensive as native > GCC bootstrapping (with all the languages enabled such as Ada and Java) or > glibc builds. It's been like 8 years now and quite recent kernels like > from two months ago gave me no trouble either. So it must be something > specific to the configuration, my first candidates to look at would be the > generated TLB and cache handlers, that are system-specific. Ah, and no issues with the 16k page size and my R4400SC DECstation and the same 64-bit userland either, I booted it recently just fine, though little-endian only of course. Like with the SWARM I stuck here to using that page size exclusively with 64-bit userland. Maciej
