Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:52:43 -0700 | From | "Yinghai Lu" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [11/18] Fix alignment bug in bootmem allocator |
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On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote: > > only happen when align is large than alignment of node_boot_start. > > Here's an updated version of the patch with this addressed. > Please review. The patch is somewhat more complicated, but > actually makes the code a little cleaner now. > > -Andi > > > Fix alignment bug in bootmem allocator > > > Without this fix bootmem can return unaligned addresses when the start of a > node is not aligned to the align value. Needed for reliably allocating > gigabyte pages. > > I removed the offset variable because all tests should align themself correctly > now. Slight drawback might be that the bootmem allocator will spend > some more time skipping bits in the bitmap initially, but that shouldn't > be a big issue. > > > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> > how about create local node_boot_start and node_bootmem_map that make sure node_boot_start has bigger alignment than align input.
YH
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