Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:43:30 +0300 | From | "Pekka Enberg" <> | Subject | Re: Re: [patch] slab: always follow arch requested alignments |
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Hi Christoph,
On 7/26/06, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote: > We intentionally discard the caller mandated alignment for debugging > purposes.
Disagreed. The caller mandated alignment is not a hint. It is the required minimum alignment for objects.
On 7/26/06, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote: > And it changes the basic way that slab debugging works.
Look at kmem_cache_create, we turn off debugging for both caller and architecture mandated alignments already and the only reason we are not doing it for Heiko is because the architecture recommended default alignment is so large.
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