Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:02:08 +0100 | | From | Andi Kleen <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [11/18] Fix alignment bug in bootmem allocator | |
> node_boot_start is not page aligned?
It is, but it is not necessarily GB aligned and without this
change sometimes alloc_bootmem when requesting GB alignment
doesn't return GB aligned memory. This was a nasty problem
that took some time to track down.
-Andi
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