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

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Date:	Wed, 19 May 2010 21:46:09 +1000
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, mpm@...enic.com,
	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

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:16:45PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> I don't mind. Feel free to apply them to slab.git, but be aware that
> Herbert wanted to see a patch fixing sparc32 ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN before
> the crypto one is applied.
> 
> Although arguably SLOB was broken on sparc32 even before the crypto
> patch -- so perhaps that fix shouldn't _have_ to go in first?

Well prior to this crypto on sparc32 did work with SLAB/SLUB.  If
you change it without including the sparc pach, then sparc32 would
be broken regardless of which allocator you used.

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