[PATCH 4/5] ARM: Align machine_desc.phys_io to a 1MB section

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Tue Mar 23 17:39:40 EDT 2010


On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 03:19:56PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> Platforms like RealView don't pass a section-aligned pointer via the
> machine_desc structure. This patch aligns the pointer in the
> __create_page_tables function. Reported by Tony Thompson.

I'd much rather the pointer in the structure was properly aligned,
rather than adding code to make it so.



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