[PATCH v3 13/21] kexec: allocate vmcoreinfo note buffer on page-size boundary

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Subject: [PATCH v3 13/21] kexec: allocate vmcoreinfo note buffer on page-size boundary
From: ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:07:20 -0700
In-reply-to: <20130316040200.15064.86851.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> (HATAYAMA Daisuke's message of "Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:02:00 +0900")
References: <20130316040003.15064.62308.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> <20130316040200.15064.86851.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>

HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama at jp.fujitsu.com> writes:

> To satisfy mmap()'s page-size boundary requirement, specify aligned
> attribute to vmcoreinfo_note objects to allocate it on page-size
> boundary.

Again I am not seeing the point.

Eric

References:
- [PATCH v3 00/21] kdump, vmcore: support mmap() on /proc/vmcore
  - From: HATAYAMA Daisuke
- [PATCH v3 13/21] kexec: allocate vmcoreinfo note buffer on page-size boundary
  - From: HATAYAMA Daisuke

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