Re: bugs in page colouring code

Rik van Riel
2012-06-14T21:04:44Z

On 06/14/2012 04:58 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 06/14/2012 05:57 AM, Rik van Riel wrote:
>>
>> However, I expect that on x86 many applications expect
>> MAP_FIXED to just work, and enforcing that would be
>> more trouble than it's worth.
>>
>
> MAP_FIXED, is well, fixed. It means that performance be screwed, if we
> can fulfill the request we MUST do so.

My codebase now has a separate arch_align_addr function
for x86, which is surprisingly similar to the generic
one :)