In article <389998E1.D374DA9D@colorfullife.com>,
Manfred Spraul <manfreds@colorfullife.com> wrote:
>
>Could you check the buddy allocator?
>I think that the zoned buddy allocator aligns memory allocations
>relative to the beginning of the zone, and not relative to the physical
>address.
The zones have to be aligned, there's no question about that. The
preferred alignment is in the megabyte range, rather than in individual
pages. In fact, I would suggest always making sure that it is aligned to
the largest order that get_free_page() supports, and I think that's true
of all current architectures..
Linus
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