Heiko> Hello Christoph, I only did kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL)
Heiko> because we need some amount of memory which is 4k
Heiko> aligned. I'm not sure, but I think if I use kmalloc(SIZE,
Heiko> GFP_KERNEL) and SIZE is smaller as 4k the memory will not
Heiko> be 4k aligned?
If you need something 4K aligned then you should be using 4096 instead
of PAGE_SIZE -- it's entirely possible to build a ppc64 kernel with
PAGE_SIZE == 65536.
It is true of course that smaller kmallocs will not be aligned.
- R.
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