linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] x86, gart: Don't enforce GART aperture lower-bound by alignment

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Message-ID: <4DAC8303.2010604@kernel.org>
Date:	Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:29:23 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] x86, gart: Don't enforce GART aperture lower-bound
 by alignment

On 04/18/2011 06:45 AM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> This patch changes the allocation of the GART aperture to
> enforce only natural alignment instead of aligning it on
> 512MB. This big alignment was used to force the GART
> aperture to be over 512MB.

Now, memblock is used instead of bootmem, so we don't need big alignment anymore.

> This is enforced by using 512MB
> as the lower-bound address in the allocation range.
> 
> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com>

Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>

Thanks

Yinghai
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