Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 15:43:50 +0100 (BST)
From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       "Gilbert, John" <JGG@dolby.com>, Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>,
       Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
       linux-os@analogic.com
Subject: Re: Illegal use of reserved word in system.h
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On Thu, 19 May 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> > See create_elf_tables.  The aux table comes after the environment.
> 
> As I stated earlier, the page size passed in there is ELF_EXEC_PAGESIZE
> which may not be the same as PAGE_SIZE.

 Well, AT_PAGESZ is specified as "system page size".  If we pass something 
else, then it's asking for troubles.  What comes from AT_PAGESZ is used by 
userland for stuff like masking arguments for mmap() and mprotect() so 
it'd better be the right value.

  Maciej
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