Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 04 Feb 2001 16:56:13 +0100 | From | Manfred <> | Subject | Re: kernel memory allocations alignment |
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"Hen, Shmulik" wrote: > > When using kmalloc(size_t size), do I get a guaranty that the memory region > allocated is aligned according to the size specified ? > More to the point, if I call kmalloc for type int on an IA64 architecture is > the pointer going to be 8 bytes aligned ? >
Yes, kmalloc results are always 'sizeof(void*)' aligned.
Do you have stricter alignment requirements?
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