Re: [PATCH v3 13/21] kexec: allocate vmcoreinfo note buffer on page-size boundary

2013-03-19 Thread Eric W. Biederman
HATAYAMA Daisuke writes: > To satisfy mmap()'s page-size boundary requirement, specify aligned > attribute to vmcoreinfo_note objects to allocate it on page-size > boundary. Those requirements don't exist. Making this patch wasteful and wrong. Eric > Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke > --- > >

Re: [PATCH v3 13/21] kexec: allocate vmcoreinfo note buffer on page-size boundary

2013-03-19 Thread Eric W. Biederman
HATAYAMA Daisuke writes: > To satisfy mmap()'s page-size boundary requirement, specify aligned > attribute to vmcoreinfo_note objects to allocate it on page-size > boundary. Again I am not seeing the point. Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the b

[PATCH v3 13/21] kexec: allocate vmcoreinfo note buffer on page-size boundary

2013-03-18 Thread HATAYAMA Daisuke
To satisfy mmap()'s page-size boundary requirement, specify aligned attribute to vmcoreinfo_note objects to allocate it on page-size boundary. Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke --- include/linux/kexec.h |6 -- kernel/kexec.c|2 +- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(