Håvard Skinnemoen wrote:
On 7/10/07, Matt Mackall <[email protected]> wrote:The only remaining known bug is arguably a problem in nommu that SLOB shouldn't be papering over.I've got another one for you: SLOB ignores ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN so using SLOB in combination with DMA and non-coherent architectures causes data corruption.
Should be fixed in mm, I believe: slob-improved-alignment-handling.patch -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. - 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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