At 10:29 AM 3/2/2003, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
>On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 01:13:28AM -0800, Matt Thomas wrote:
>
>  > Taking Andrew Brown's idea, I stole the top 8 bit of the flags argument
>  > to mmap(2) to inside a log2 value of alignment desired.  The attach
>  > patch implements the proposal and (after a few bugs in uvm) works fine.
>
>I don't really like the flags thing .. I'd say either your first proposal,
>or a new mmap call that takes an additional alignment argument.

I actually like the flags method.  It's much simplier than having a second
syscall.  It also means that uvm_mmap doesn't need to take another argument
and the code that calls it doesn't have to change.


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