linux-kernel - Re: lib/klist.c: bit 0 in pointer can't be used as flag

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Message-Id: <20090113.144208.151478270.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:42:08 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	Jesper.Nilsson@...s.com
Cc:	tj@...nel.org, gregkh@...e.de, stern@...land.harvard.edu,
	jens.axboe@...cle.com, hinko.kocevar@...rtapot.si,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: lib/klist.c: bit 0 in pointer can't be used as flag

From: Jesper Nilsson <Jesper.Nilsson@...s.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:12:35 +0100

> Can you recall another place where this trick is used?
> 
> It seems that rt_mutex uses the same trick (with the lowest 2bits)
> but AFAICT that's something we don't use on CRIS.

Sparsemem uses it.

The TRIE based routing tables uses it.

All of the IPV4/IPV6 socket hash tables use it as of 2.6.29-rc1.

You really can't avoid supporting this.  Why doesn't kmalloc
return properly aligned objects on CRIS?
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