Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Dec 1999 10:47:20 -0500 | From | Simon Kirby <> | Subject | Re: Ok, making ready for pre-2.4 and code-freeze.. |
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On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 08:21:01PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The shift from "long long" to a 32-bit "index" has to be done somewhere > anyway - the 32-bit index is the internal kernel way of doing things, and > makes perfect sense. So why not just do it in user space - that way people > who want to be clever CAN be clever (imagine a compiler that inlined the > shift and combined it with some other operation done on that argument).
Is it a good idea to expect userspace to assume PAGE_SIZE/PAGE_SHIFT are constants? Don't some architectures have variable page sizes?
Simon-
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