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Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 08:46:33 -0500
From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
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Subject: Re: Is there anyway to use 4M pages on x86 linux in user level?
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DervishD wrote:
> 
>     Hi Yinlei :)
> 
> >Since x86 architecutre has a 4M page feature
> 
>     I may certainly be wrong but... is not 4k OR 16M the page size on
> x86 arch? I didn't know about 4M page. Could you send me the GTD
> settings for that? (Just curiosity :)))

The large page size is 4MB, except in PAE mode where they are 2MB. 
Normal pages are always 4KB.  Noting in the GDT affects the page size.

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						Brian Gerst
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