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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 14:26:06 +0200 From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org> To: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org Subject: Re: mbind and alignment Hi, Andi Kleen, le Wed 04 Apr 2007 13:52:04 +0200, a écrit : > > So one of those should probably be done to free people from headaches: > > > > - document "start" requirement in the manual page > > - require len to be aligned too, and document the requirements in the > > manual page > > - drop the "start" requirement and just round down the page + adjust > > size automatically. > > This annoyed me in the past too. The kernel should have done that alignment > by itself. But changing it now would be a bad idea because it would > produce programs that run on newer kernels but break on olders. > Documenting it is the only sane option left. Ok. I already sent a patch to the manpages maintainer. Samuel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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