[PATCH v6 14/19] arm64:ilp32: add sys_ilp32.c and a separate table (in entry.S) to use it

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Thu Dec 3 12:42:20 PST 2015


On Thursday 03 December 2015 21:14:41 Yury Norov wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure there is much value in
> > keeping 4*PAGE_SIZE for larger page sizes but I agree that the current
> > 16K value doesn't work well with 64K pages.
> 
> Arnd told there will be a workaround for arm v6 caches. Than this
> header will not be needed at all. Until that, this is simpliest
> fix as it doesn't affect userspace.

I think we should do whatever matches user space: There is no harm
in going to 256KB instead of 64KB if current glibc already uses
4*getpagetsize() for a kernel with native 64K pages.

	Arnd



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