Christoph Lameter wrote:
So Redzoning etc will now be diabled regardless even if ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN is not set but another alignment is given to kmem_cache_alloc?
kmem_cache_create().
So we sacrifice the ability to worsen the performance of slabs by misaligning them for debugging purposes.If a slab user can live with misaligned objects, then he shouldn't set align. Thus we do not sacrifice anything.
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