Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:37:42 +0300 (EEST) | | From | Pekka J Enberg <> | | Subject | Re: [patch 2/2] slab: always consider arch mandated alignment |
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On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Heiko Carstens wrote: > It's enough to fix the ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN problem. But it does _not_ fix the > ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN problem. s390 currently only uses ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN > since that should be good enough and it doesn't disable as much debugging > as ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN does. > What exactly isn't clear from the description of the first patch? Or why do > you consider it bogus?
Now I am confused. What do you mean by "doesn't disable as much debugging as ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN does"? AFAICT, the SLAB_RED_ZONE and SLAB_STORE_USER options _require_ BYTES_PER_WORD alignment, so if s390 requires 8 byte alignment, you can't have them debugging anyhow...
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