Re: + memblock-add-assertion-for-zero-allocation-alignment.patchadded to -mm tree

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Mar 06 2013 - 20:05:48 EST


On 03/06/2013 04:07 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>> mm/memblock.c | 3 +++
>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff -puN mm/memblock.c~memblock-add-assertion-for-zero-allocation-alignment mm/memblock.c
>> --- a/mm/memblock.c~memblock-add-assertion-for-zero-allocation-alignment
>> +++ a/mm/memblock.c
>> @@ -771,6 +771,9 @@ static phys_addr_t __init memblock_alloc
>> {
>> phys_addr_t found;
>>
>> + if (WARN_ON(!align))
>> + align = __alignof__(long long);
>> +
>> /* align @size to avoid excessive fragmentation on reserved array */
>> size = round_up(size, align);
>
> Hi, Peter,
>
> Do you agree that we should check align in round_up()?
>

Not in round_up(), that is used in way too many places. Doing it in
memblock_alloc() might make sense.

-hpa

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