Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Dec 2017 11:01:18 +0100 | From | Cyril Hrubis <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] mmap.2: MAP_FIXED updated documentation |
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Hi! > (It does seem unfortunate that the man page cannot help the programmer > actually write correct code here. He or she is forced to read the kernel > implementation, in order to figure out the true alignment rules. I was > hoping we could avoid that.)
It would be nice if we had this information exported somehere so that we do not have to rely on per-architecture ifdefs.
What about adding MapAligment or something similar to the /proc/meminfo?
-- Cyril Hrubis chrubis@suse.cz
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