[PATCH v4 4/8] efi: efistub: allow allocation alignment larger than EFI_PAGE_SIZE

Borislav Petkov bp at alien8.de
Tue Dec 23 08:45:49 PST 2014


On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 10:59:00AM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On systems with 64 KB pages, it is preferable for UEFI memory map
> entries to be 64 KB aligned multiples of 64 KB, because it relieves
> us of having to deal with the residues.
> So, if EFI_ALLOC_ALIGN is #define'd by the platform, use it to round
> up all memory allocations made.
> 
> Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp at suse.de>

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