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

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Date:	Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:33:50 -0700
From:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
To:	npiggin@...e.de, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Andi Kleen" <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, pj@....com,
	kniht@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [patch 10/17] mm: fix bootmem alignment

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:02 AM,  <npiggin@...e.de> 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

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Subject: mm: offset align in alloc_bootmem
From: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel.send@...il.com>

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.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@...fujitsu.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
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