linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slab: respect architecture and caller mandated alignment

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Date:	Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:19:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
cc:	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, akpm@...l.org,
	manfred@...orfullife.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: respect architecture and caller mandated alignment

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Heiko Carstens wrote:

> > You may want to document that change somewhere.
> 
> It is already documented (see top of slab.c). The only thing that was 
> wrong was that ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN and ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN didn't have 
> the effect like one would expect from the documentation.

Some of the passages there are a bit fuzzy to me. This is the first time 
though that we enforce these alignments for the SLAB_DEBUG case.
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