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Subject: Re: x86 Page Sizes
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Dan Sturtevant <dsturtev@plogic.com>
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On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 18:02, Dan Sturtevant wrote:
> 
> I know the x86 linux kernel has 4K pages in userspace and 4M pages in 
> kernel space.  These two sizes seem to be limitations of the intel 
> architecture (I think).
> 
> Does anyone know a way to increase the userspace page size above 4K?
> Are there any patches for a 4M userspace pagesize?

Kernel has 4K pages in user and kernel space.  It is the same address
space and segment, just uses MMU protection.

x86 does 4K pages.

	Robert Love

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