On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>> And if the code really explicitly wants a page (or set of aligned pages)
>> for some vm reason, I suspect having the cast there isn't a bad thing. It's
>> clearly not just a random pointer allocation if the bit pattern of the
>> pointer matters.
>
> BTW, I'm not sure we don't have code that would assume that
> kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE,...) always returns something PAGE_SIZE-aligned.
Yeah, needs-to-be-PAGE_SIZE-aligned is probably one of the main
reasons of not calling kmalloc().
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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