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On Mon, 2017-03-27 at 21:17 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > If so, is it acceptable to force that kernel to user 64K alignment
> > even
> > when it's running on non-PowerNV systems?
> 
> Probably, but I'm not sure TBH. Benh will know, I'll try and get his
> attention.

Can we make the alignment PAGE_SIZE ? I think that should be ok as long
as it doesn't try to re-allocate BARs for devices that have already
been properly allocated by firmware (ie, PowerMac, if you mess around
with the MacIO chip on these, bad things will happen).

Cheers,
Ben.