Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Sep 2019 20:47:52 +0000 (UTC) | From | cl@linux ... | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm, sl[aou]b: guarantee natural alignment for kmalloc(power-of-two) |
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On Mon, 23 Sep 2019, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 07:17:10PM +0200, David Sterba wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 06:36:32PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > > > So if anyone thinks this is a good idea, please express it (preferably > > > in a formal way such as Acked-by), otherwise it seems the patch will be > > > dropped (due to a private NACK, apparently). > > Oh, I didn't realize ^^^^^^^^^^^^ that *some* of us are allowed the > privilege of gutting a patch via private NAK without any of that open > development discussion incovenience. <grumble>
There was a public discussion about this issue and from what I can tell the outcome was that the allocator already provides what you want. Which was a mechanism to misalign objects and detect these issues. This mechanism has been in use for over a decade.
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