Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:32:51 +0300 (EEST) | From | Pekka J Enberg <> | Subject | Re: [patch] slab: always follow arch requested alignments |
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On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > This is the bit I missed, sorry. I thought that the s390 hardware > > mandates 8 byte alignment, but it really doesn't. So you're absolutely > > right, you don't need to set ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN and the alignment > > calculation in slab is indeed broken for both, architecture and caller > > mandated alignments.
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Well that is a bit far reaching. What is broken is that SLAB_RED_ZONE and > SLAB_STORE_USER ignore any given alignment. If you want to fix that then > you need to modify how both debugging methods work.
Not sure I understand what you mean. Isn't it enough that we disable debugging if architecture or caller mandated alignment is greater than BYTES_PER_WORD?
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