Re: [patch] slab: always follow arch requested alignments

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Pekka J Enberg wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > The following patch adds an option SLAB_DEBUG_OVERRIDE to switch off
> > debugging if its on by default. S390 would have to set ARCH_KMALLOC_FLAGS
> > to SLAB_DEBUG_OVERRIDE. The flag will then be passed in 
> > kmem_cache_init to kmem_cache_create(). This approach also preserves the 
> > existing slab behavior for all other archs.
> 
> Please read my patch again. The rules are simple: we must disable 
> debugging if architecture OR caller mandated alignment is greater than 
> BYTES_PER_WORD. Note: for kmem_cache_init() the caller mandated alignment 
> _is_ ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN.

We intentionally discard the caller mandated alignment for debugging 
purposes. 
 
> My patch takes care of _both_ ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN and 
> ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN.

And it changes the basic way that slab debugging works. 
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