The Power platform requires the partner info buffer to be page aligned otherwise it will fail the partner info hcall with H_PARAMETER. Switch from using kmalloc to allocate this buffer to __get_free_page to ensure page alignment. Signed-off-by: Brian King --- drivers/tty/hvc/hvcs.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/tty/hvc/hvcs.c~hvcs_pi_buf_alloc drivers/tty/hvc/hvcs.c --- linux-2.6/drivers/tty/hvc/hvcs.c~hvcs_pi_buf_alloc 2011-09-09 16:00:25.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6-bjking1/drivers/tty/hvc/hvcs.c 2011-09-09 16:07:08.000000000 -0500 @@ -1532,7 +1532,7 @@ static int __devinit hvcs_initialize(voi goto register_fail; } - hvcs_pi_buff = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); + hvcs_pi_buff = (unsigned long *) __get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL); if (!hvcs_pi_buff) { rc = -ENOMEM; goto buff_alloc_fail; @@ -1548,7 +1548,7 @@ static int __devinit hvcs_initialize(voi return 0; kthread_fail: - kfree(hvcs_pi_buff); + free_page((unsigned long)hvcs_pi_buff); buff_alloc_fail: tty_unregister_driver(hvcs_tty_driver); register_fail: @@ -1597,7 +1597,7 @@ static void __exit hvcs_module_exit(void kthread_stop(hvcs_task); spin_lock(&hvcs_pi_lock); - kfree(hvcs_pi_buff); + free_page((unsigned long)hvcs_pi_buff); hvcs_pi_buff = NULL; spin_unlock(&hvcs_pi_lock); _