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On 6/29/22 9:49 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 6/28/22 6:27 PM, Ammar Faizi wrote:
>> From: Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@gnuweeb.org>
>>
>> This is a preparation patch to add aarch64 nolibc support.
>>
>> aarch64 supports three values of page size: 4K, 16K, and 64K which are
>> selected at kernel compilation time. Therefore, we can't hard code the
>> page size for this arch. Utilize open(), read() and close() syscall to
>> find the page size from /proc/self/auxv. For more details about the
>> auxv data structure, check the link below.
> 
> We should probably cache this value if already read? At least I don't
> think we have systems where the page size would differ between
> applications.

Good idea, will use a static variable to cache it in v2 then...

-- 
Ammar Faizi