On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Bill Studenmund wrote:

[BS: While I see the purity of adding an extra argument, I like the idea of
[BS: using flags. We have a good number open, and using them would mean not
[BS: changing a lot of called routines.
[BS:
[BS: I also like listing the alignment in terms of bytes, not pages, since it
[BS: means userland code doesn't care what the internal page size is.

Perhaps, then, if we have the flags, we should have

	PMAP_ALIGN	_arg_ is a byte alignment specification (currently
			restricted to a power of two?  Do any weird byte-
			size architectures (still) exist?).  The returned
			region will be aligned to on a _arg_-byte boundary

	PMAP_PALIGN	Request page alignment.  The returned region will
			be page-aligned.

[BS: Also it
[BS: might help emulation if future systems raise the page size (like say we go
[BS: from 4k to 8k or 8k to 16k as part of a CPU transition) - we don't have to
[BS: keep track of the implicit page size.

I don't know enough about how pages work; can many owners/processes share
a page of memory or is it usually N:1 (pages:processes)?

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