Re: [RFC] free_pages stuff

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> And if the code really explicitly wants a page (or set of aligned pages)
>> for some vm reason, I suspect having the cast there isn't a bad thing. It's
>> clearly not just a random pointer allocation if the bit pattern of the
>> pointer matters.
>
> BTW, I'm not sure we don't have code that would assume that
> kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE,...) always returns something PAGE_SIZE-aligned.

Yeah, needs-to-be-PAGE_SIZE-aligned is probably one of the main
reasons of not calling kmalloc().

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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