Bug#1079800: release-notes - Document that default ppc64el kernel switched to 4k pages

Pascal Hambourg <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.documentation
Organization Plouf !
Message-ID <4445fb5a-6919-4cdf-b0db-16afb90f0886__11476.4094514371$1749723442$gmane$org@plouf.fr.eu.org>
On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 17:12:34 +0200 Bastian Blank <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>     After rebooting, you need to re-create all swap files or partitions.
>     They depend on the page size and will be not longer usable.  See
>     mkswap(8) on how to do that.

Although I did not find anything relevant in systemd documentation, it 
looks like systemd.swap executes swapon with --fixpgsz which 
reinitializes (with mkswap) the swap space if its page size does not 
match the running kernel page size. So no user action should be needed.
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