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

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Message-ID: <dcf5f09a-6c68-4391-2b88-cceac7ff462f@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 13:12:15 +1100 (AEDT)
From: Finn Thain <fthain@...ux-m68k.org>
To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>, 
    Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, 
    David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>, 
    Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, 
    Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, 
    Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>, 
    Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, 
    Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@...il.com>, Mike@....of.borg, 
    Rapoport@....of.borg, Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, 
    Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, 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 Thu, 21 Nov 2024, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

> On Wed, 2024-11-20 at 13:46 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On m68k, where the minimum alignment of unsigned long is 2 bytes:
> 
> Well, well, well, my old friend strikes again ;-).
> 
> These will always come up until we fix the alignment issue on m68k.
> 

Hmmm. That patch you're replying too. Does it make the kernel source code 
better or worse?