Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:17:31 -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 12:02 AM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote: > > 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.
or preferred has some problem?
preferred = PFN_DOWN(ALIGN(preferred, align)) + offset;
YH
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