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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