Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Mar 2001 08:45:25 +0000 | From | Studierende der Universitaet des Saarlandes <> | Subject | Re: [patch] pae-2.4.3-A4 |
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> plus i took to opportunity to reduce the allocation size of PAE-pgds. > Their size is only 32 bytes, and we allocated a full page. Now the code > kmalloc()s a 32 byte cacheline for the pgd. (there is a hardware > constraint on alignment: this cacheline must be at least 16-byte aligned, > which is true for the current kmalloc() code.)
No, it isn't ;-)
Just enable slab debugging (it's a kernel option in alan's ac kernels), and then the kmalloc result is not aligned anymore.
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