Re: [PATCH 06/16] Enforce minimum alignment of 1 page onallocations. The efi_high_alloc() and efi_low_alloc() functions use theEFI_ALLOCATE_ADDRESS option to the EFI function allocate_pages(), whichrequires a minimum of page alignment, and rejects all other requests.

From: Mark Salter
Date: Tue Aug 13 2013 - 09:59:36 EST

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In reply to: Roy Franz: "[PATCH 06/16] Enforce minimum alignment of 1 page on allocations. The efi_high_alloc() and efi_low_alloc() functions use the EFI_ALLOCATE_ADDRESS option to the EFI function allocate_pages(), which requires a minimum of page alignment, and rejects all other requests."
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On Fri, 2013-08-09 at 16:26 -0700, Roy Franz wrote:
> The existing code could fail to allocate depending
> on allocation size, as although repeated allocation
> attempts were made, none were guaranteed to be page
> aligned.
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>
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> Signed-off-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Tested on arm64.

Acked-by: Mark Salter <msalter@xxxxxxxxxx>

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