Re: [patch 09/10] Remove the SLOB allocator for 2.6.23

On 7/10/07, Nick Piggin <[email protected]> wrote:

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

Indeed. Thanks, I'll give it a try later today.

Håvard
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