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

Hi,

On 12-06-2025 12:15, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> 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.


I also forgot about this bug when I upgraded the ppc64el host of ci.d.n 
last week (or the week before) and didn't do anything special. How can I 
see where things go wrong?

Paul

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