linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slab: Fix too strict alignment check in create

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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 09:12:55 +0100
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To: Greg Ungerer <gerg@...nel.org>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, "Christoph Lameter (Ampere)" <cl@...two.org>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, 
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, 
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, 
	Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>, Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>, 
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@...il.com>, 
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>, Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, 
	Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org, io-uring@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-m68k@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: Fix too strict alignment check in create_cache()

On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 1:23 AM Greg Ungerer <gerg@...nel.org> wrote:
> On 22/11/24 04:30, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > Do we really need to continue supporting nommu machines ? Is anyone
> > but me even boot testing those ?
>
> Yes. Across many architectures. And yes on every release, and for m68k building
> and testing on every rc for nommu at a minimum.
>
> I rarely hit build or testing problems on nonmmu targets. At least every kernel
> release I build and test armnommu (including thumb2 on cortex), m68k, RISC-V and
> xtensa. They are all easy, qemu targets for them all. Thats just me. So I would
> guess there are others building and testing too.

FTR, I do regular boot tests on K210 (SiPEED MAiX BiT RISC-V nommu).
Getting harder, as 8 MiB of RAM is not much...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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