Re: [PATCH] lib/genaloc: Fix allocation of aligned buffer from non-aligned chunk

[Alexey Skidanov]

On 11/8/18 00:14, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 08:21:07 +0200 Alexey Skidanov <alexey.skidanov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>> Why does this need "fixing"?  Are there current callers which can
>>> misalign chunk_start_addr?  Or is there a requirement that future
>>> callers can misalign chunk_start_addr?
>>>
>> I work on adding aligned allocation support for ION heaps
>> (https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-driver-devel/msg118754.html). Two
>> of these heaps use genpool internally.
>>
>> If you want to have an ability to allocate buffers aligned on different
>> boundaries (for example, 4K, 1MB, ...), this fix actually removes the
>> requirement for chunk_start_addr to be aligned on the max possible
>> alignment.
> 
> OK.  This sort of information should be in the changelog, please.  In
> much detail.
> 
Sure, I'll add this information and resend the patch.

Thanks,
Alexey