On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 02:16:06PM +0300, Pekka J Enberg wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Heiko Carstens wrote: > > We only specify ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN, since that aligns only the kmalloc > > caches, but it doesn't disable debugging on other caches that are created > > via kmem_cache_create() where an alignment of e.g. 0 is specified. > > > > The point of the first patch is: why should the slab cache be allowed to chose > > an aligment that is less than what the caller specified? This does very likely > > break things. > > Ah, yes, you are absolutely right. We need to respect caller mandated > alignment too. How about this? Works fine and looks much better than my two patches. Thanks! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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