Re: [PATCH 06/18] Enforce minimum alignment of 1 page on allocations.

2013-09-25 Thread Matt Fleming
On Sun, 22 Sep, at 03:45:30PM, Roy Franz wrote: > 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. > The existing code could fail to allocate

[PATCH 06/18] Enforce minimum alignment of 1 page on allocations.

2013-09-22 Thread Roy Franz
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. The existing code could fail to allocate depending on allocation size, as although repeated alloca