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From:   Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To:     Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc:     akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ELF: supply userspace with available page shifts
 (AT_PAGE_SHIFT_LIST)
References: <6b399b86-a478-48b0-92a1-25240a8ede54@p183>
Date:   Tue, 05 Dec 2023 10:51:39 +0100
In-Reply-To: <6b399b86-a478-48b0-92a1-25240a8ede54@p183> (Alexey Dobriyan's
        message of "Mon, 4 Dec 2023 20:18:48 +0300")
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* Alexey Dobriyan:

> +/*
> + * Page sizes available for mmap(2) encoded as 1 page shift per byte in
> + * increasing order.
> + *
> + * Thus 32-bit systems get 4 shifts, 64-bit systems get 8 shifts tops.

Couldn't you use the bits in a long instead, to indicate which shifts
are present?  That's always going to be enough.

Thanks,
Florian