linux-kernel - Re: [patch] mm, slab: initialize object alignment on cache creation

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1409231821050.32451@gentwo.org>
Date:	Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:22:08 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, a.elovikov@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [patch] mm, slab: initialize object alignment on cache
 creation

On Tue, 23 Sep 2014, David Rientjes wrote:

> The proper alignment defaults to BYTES_PER_WORD and can be overridden by
> SLAB_RED_ZONE or the alignment specified by the caller.

Where does it default to BYTES_PER_WORD in __kmem_cache_create?
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