Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Oct 2002 15:11:32 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [patch, 2.5] __vmalloc allocates spurious page? |
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On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 12:58:12AM +0300, Marcus Alanen wrote: >> Actually, size is already PAGE_ALIGNed, so we get the amount of pages >> even easier.
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:05:06PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > IIRC, back in the dim and distant past, the extra page was originally to > catch things running off the end of their space (eg, modules). The > idea was that modules (and other vmalloc'd areas) would be separated > by one unmapped page. > It looks like this got broken recently though.
Hmm? I looked briefly to check the patch and the guard page was added onto the thing elsewhere in vmalloc.c
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