[PATCH] ARM: OMAP2+: TEMP: Round of the carve out memory requested to section_size

Shilimkar, Santosh santosh.shilimkar at ti.com
Wed Sep 12 01:58:22 EDT 2012


On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:21 AM, R Sricharan <r.sricharan at ti.com> wrote:
> memblock_steal tries to reserve physical memory during boot.
> When the requested size is not aligned on the section size
> then, the remaining memory available for lowmem becomes
> unaligned on the section boundary. There is a issue with this,
> which is discussed in the thread below.
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/28/112
>
> The final conclusion from the thread seems to
> be align the memblock_steal calls on the SECTION boundary.
>
> Signed-off-by: R Sricharan <r.sricharan at ti.com>
Why is the TEMP in the subject line. From patch it doesn't be
temporary version. Can you please clarify that ?

Regards
Santosh



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