linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm, sl[aou]b: guarantee natural alignment for kmalloc(power-of-two)

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Date:   Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:57:43 -0700
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
        "Darrick J . Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm, sl[aou]b: guarantee natural alignment for
 kmalloc(power-of-two)

On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 01:16:27PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> @@ -98,6 +98,10 @@ limited. The actual limit depends on the hardware and the kernel
>  configuration, but it is a good practice to use `kmalloc` for objects
>  smaller than page size.
>  
> +The address of a chunk allocated with `kmalloc` is aligned to at least
> +ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN bytes. For sizes of power of two bytes, the

"For sizes which are a power of two, the"

> +alignment is also guaranteed to be at least to the respective size.

s/to //

Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@...radead.org>