linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] SLOB breaks Crypto

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Date:	Wed, 19 May 2010 13:48:53 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
Cc:	geert@...ux-m68k.org, herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au,
	davem@...emloft.net, penberg@...helsinki.fi, mpm@...enic.com,
	ken@...elabs.ch, michael-dev@...i-braun.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	anemo@....ocn.ne.jp
Subject: Re: [BUG] SLOB breaks Crypto

On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 21:26 +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> 
> > Surely those architectures that have alignment constraints for DMA
> but
> > which don't set ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN are just buggy -- it _does_
> mean
> > that.
> 
> Well, I thought so but seems that there isn't such agreement:
> 
> http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2010/5/12/4568960 

How strange. That thread has a fair amount of misinformation from people
who should know better.

-- 
dwmw2

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