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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] (2.4.x bk) efi_memmap_walk_uc
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 00:05:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105952369523859@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105883467032028@msgid-missing>

>>>>> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 18:56:15 -0500 (CDT), Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> said:

  Jack> If granularity is bytes, we need to support page-aligned
  Jack> allocations. Fetchop pages are mmap'ed to user space.

I see.  But then EFI-page-aligned memory won't do you no good either
(i.e., you'd need a PAGE_SIZE-based allocator).  Alternatively, just
allocated PAGE_SIZE+1 extra bytes and do the alignment yourself?

	--david

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-07-30  0:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-22  0:43 [PATCH] (2.4.x bk) efi_memmap_walk_uc Christopher Wedgwood
2003-07-22  2:16 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2003-07-22  2:58 ` Christopher Wedgwood
2003-07-22  3:08 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2003-07-22  4:43 ` Christopher Wedgwood
2003-07-25  1:15 ` David Mosberger
2003-07-29 18:34 ` Christopher Wedgwood
2003-07-29 18:45 ` Luck, Tony
2003-07-29 19:03 ` Christopher Wedgwood
2003-07-29 20:41 ` David Mosberger
2003-07-29 21:15 ` Christopher Wedgwood
2003-07-29 21:31 ` David Mosberger
2003-07-29 21:34 ` Luck, Tony
2003-07-29 22:05 ` Jack Steiner
2003-07-29 22:07 ` Christopher Wedgwood
2003-07-29 22:26 ` Luck, Tony
2003-07-29 22:30 ` David Mosberger
2003-07-29 22:35 ` Christopher Wedgwood
2003-07-29 22:37 ` Christopher Wedgwood
2003-07-29 22:47 ` Luck, Tony
2003-07-29 22:48 ` David Mosberger
2003-07-29 22:54 ` David Mosberger
2003-07-29 23:49 ` Jack Steiner
2003-07-29 23:54 ` Christopher Wedgwood
2003-07-29 23:56 ` Jack Steiner
2003-07-30  0:00 ` Christopher Wedgwood
2003-07-30  0:02 ` Christopher Wedgwood
2003-07-30  0:05 ` David Mosberger [this message]
2003-07-30  0:12 ` David Mosberger
2003-07-30  0:22 ` Jack Steiner
2003-07-30  9:21 ` Christoph Hellwig

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