Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:04:11 -0400 (EDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: iwlagn: order 2 page allocation failures |
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On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Mel Gorman wrote:
> The allocation of buffers >= PAGE_SIZE even when allocated with > kmalloc() are page-aligned though right? It's not an explicit guarantee > but is it not always the case?
Its typically the case but debug options may misalign the object. The guarantee for kmalloc caches is to be cacheline aligned.
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