Re: Is it possible to use 8K page size on a i386 pc?

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
27 Aug 2002 17:06:08 -0700

Followup to: <200208271914.g7RJEQE07821@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
By author: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> You may run into trouble with something that calls mmap with
> a fixed address, with executables which have text sizes of
> odd number of small pages. I was told that these problems are
> fairly rare.
>

Only 50% of all binaries are affected... that's fairly rare :)

-hpa

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