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

Sricharan R r.sricharan at ti.com
Wed Sep 12 04:42:32 EDT 2012


[..]
> > 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 ?
>
 Oops, that was a mistake. Reposted by correcting it.

Thanks,
 Sricharan



More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list