On Thu, 2016-04-07 at 17:56 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Maybe the kernel should just accept the smaller alignment. If the > minimum alignment we use is bigger than necessary, then we're just > wrong about it, and perhaps we should just use the smaller alignment > that the bios used. > > So instead of adding this notion of alternate alignment, maybe we > should just not be so uptight about our own minimum alignment > requirements?
On the other hand it's nice to align things at page boundaries when these resources can possibly be mapped by user space or KVM guests... Cheers, Ben.
