linux-kernel - Re: [patch] slab: always follow arch requested alignments

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0607261535450.20519@sbz-30.cs.Helsinki.FI>
Date:	Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:36:05 +0300 (EEST)
From:	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...Helsinki.FI>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
cc:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] slab: always follow arch requested alignments

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> My patch changes the code so that, if either architecture or 
> caller mandated alignment is greater than BYTES_PER_WORD, 
> kmem_cache_create will disable debugging. Do you now see why my patch is 
> in fact _not_ ignoring ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN, but instead respecting that.

And btw, I am referring to this patch: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/26/93. 
Not the one I posted initially.

				Pekka
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