Re: [PATCH 3/5] pagemap: Make pagemap_read enforce reading inmultiples of 8

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 11:06 -0400, Thomas Tuttle wrote:
> Since kpagecount and kpageflags require reads in multiples of 8, and
> it simplifies add_to_pagemap significantly, I added the same
> requirement to /proc/pid/pagemap.

I'm generally fine with this. Another approach that's perhaps more
friendly is when someone tries to do a 24-byte read, do a 16-byte read,
leaving the file pointer aligned. Not sure if that's completely kosher
though.

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