Re: bugs in page colouring code

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Thu Jun 14 2012 - 17:05:11 EST


On 06/14/2012 04:58 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
On 06/14/2012 05:57 AM, Rik van Riel wrote:

However, I expect that on x86 many applications expect
MAP_FIXED to just work, and enforcing that would be
more trouble than it's worth.


MAP_FIXED, is well, fixed. It means that performance be screwed, if we
can fulfill the request we MUST do so.

My codebase now has a separate arch_align_addr function
for x86, which is surprisingly similar to the generic
one :)
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