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

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Date:	Wed, 19 May 2010 00:15:46 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	mpm@...enic.com, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, ken@...elabs.ch,
	geert@...ux-m68k.org, 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

Hi David,

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:59 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
> Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 14:33:55 -0500
>
>> SLOB honors ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN. If your arch has alignment
>> requirements, I recommend you set it.
>
> I recommend that the alignment provided by the allocator is not
> determined by which allocator I happen to have enabled.
>
> The values and ifdef'ery should be identical in all of our
> allocators.

Why? It doesn't make much sense for SLOB, which tries to be as space
efficient as possible, as a default. If things break on sparc, it
really needs to set ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN as slab default alignment is
not something you really want to depend on.

                        Pekka
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