From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Sylvain Munaut <tnt@246tNt.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: change rheap functions to use long integers instead of pointers
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:34:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4613EFB3.4020104@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4613EF1F.6000704@freescale.com>
Scott Wood wrote:
>> Otherwise, if you pass an unaligned value of 'start', then the buffer
>> you get back will be less than 'size'.
>
> That's better than the buffer you get back being bigger than the region
> that's really free...
True, but I think both cases should be rejected.
> If I attach a region from 0x03 to 0x2d, and the alignment is 4, then the
> only sane thing to do is allocate from 0x04 to 0x2b.
Or return an error.
--
Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-04 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-03 16:02 [PATCH] powerpc: change rheap functions to use long integers instead of pointers Timur Tabi
2007-04-04 16:42 ` Kumar Gala
2007-04-04 17:36 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2007-04-04 17:42 ` Timur Tabi
2007-04-04 18:00 ` Sylvain Munaut
2007-04-04 18:05 ` Timur Tabi
2007-04-04 18:13 ` Timur Tabi
2007-04-04 19:15 ` Dan Malek
2007-04-04 19:20 ` Timur Tabi
2007-04-04 19:31 ` Sylvain Munaut
2007-04-04 18:13 ` Scott Wood
2007-04-04 18:19 ` Timur Tabi
2007-04-04 18:24 ` Scott Wood
2007-04-04 18:27 ` Timur Tabi
2007-04-04 18:31 ` Scott Wood
2007-04-04 18:34 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
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