linux-kernel - Re: [patch 01/20] Create generic alignment API (v8)

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Message-ID: <20100806114114.GH28519@shisha.kicks-ass.net>
Date:	Fri, 6 Aug 2010 14:41:14 +0300
From:	Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@...nd.org>
To:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>,
	Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@...il.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Imre Deak <imre.deak@...ia.com>,
	Jamie Lokier <jamie@...reable.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@...nd.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 01/20] Create generic alignment API (v8)

On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 06:57:28 -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> Rather than re-doing the "alignment on a type size" trick all over again at
> different levels, import the "ltt_align" from LTTng into kernel.h and make this
> available to everyone. Renaming to:
> 
> - object_align()
> - object_align_floor()
> - offset_align()
> - offset_align_floor()

I was just wondering if this patch makes any progress anywhere?

Regards,
--
Alex
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