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Subject[TRIVIAL] Trivial patch in the bootmem allocator

If the requested align is PAGE_SIZE, it is impossible to merge with the
previous allocation request, because the allocated area must begin in a
page boundary.

Regards,
Juanma

--- linux/mm/bootmem.c.orig Fri Sep 13 15:23:22 2002
+++ linux/mm/bootmem.c Fri Sep 13 15:24:31 2002
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@
* of this allocation's buffer? If yes then we can 'merge'
* the previous partial page with this allocation.
*/
- if (align <= PAGE_SIZE
+ if (align < PAGE_SIZE
&& bdata->last_offset && bdata->last_pos+1 == start) {
offset = (bdata->last_offset+align-1) & ~(align-1);
if (offset > PAGE_SIZE)

--
/jm

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