Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 May 2008 10:26:51 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] nommu: fix kobjsize() for SLOB and SLUB |
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On Wed, 28 May 2008, David Howells wrote:
> David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote: > > > Works for SLAB and SLUB. SLOB breaks well before getting to anything these > > patches affect. > > Okay... The problem with SLOB is that it can return large objects (8Kb in this > case) that aren't 8-byte aligned. This screws up FRV as it expects to be able > to use load and store-double instructions, which fault if they don't get > 8-byte (double register) alignment.
Right. SLAB/SLUB align to long long. SLOB needs to do the same.
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