Re: [patch 10/17] mm: fix bootmem alignment

[Nick Piggin]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:33:50AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:02 AM,  <npiggin@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> 
> 
> this patch from Andi was obsoleted by the one in -mm
> 
> 
> The patch titled
>     mm: offset align in alloc_bootmem
> has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
>     mm-offset-align-in-alloc_bootmem.patch
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Subject: mm: offset align in alloc_bootmem
> From: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel.send@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Need offset alignment when node_boot_start's alignment is less than align
> required
> 
> Use local node_boot_start to match align.  so don't add extra opteration in
> search loop.

Ah, with this patch I'm actually able to allocate 2 1GB pages (on my 4GB
box), so it must be doing something right ;) Will be helpful for my
testing, thanks.


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