Re: Allocating memory aligned on 1M boundary?

[Timur Tabi]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:35 PM,  <david.hagood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Yes, I could allocate 2x the desired size, then use that part of what I
> allocate that is correctly aligned, but then I am guaranteed to waste half
> of what I allocate.

You can use the mechanism used in alloc_pages_exact() to free the
pages that you don't need.

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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