Re: Illegal use of reserved word in system.h

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>]

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> > As I stated earlier, the page size passed in there is ELF_EXEC_PAGESIZE
> > which may not be the same as PAGE_SIZE.
> 
> and that is good!
> Some architectures have different page sizes for different
> personalities, eg ia64 has 16Kb for ia64 binaries but 4kb for x86
> binaries. "kernel" PAGE_SIZE would be wrong to give to x86 userspace
> there.

 Well, as long as that value is what Linux expects (and respects!) for 
calls like mprotect().

  Maciej
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