From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Wedgwood Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 00:02:06 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] (2.4.x bk) efi_memmap_walk_uc Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 06:56:15PM -0500, Jack Steiner wrote: > If granularity is bytes, we need to support page-aligned > allocations. Fetchop pages are mmap'ed to user space. We could insist the allocator always return naturally aligned allocations --- a page-size allocation will be page-aligned. The only kicker here is that someone wishing to allocate a large chunk of UC space might get a failure where they otherwise would not. --cw