On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 22:59 +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, James Bottomley wrote: > > > > libsas looks to be OK because it specifically kmallocs a 512 byte buffer > > which should (for off slab data) be 512 byte aligned. > > I don't remember the various SLAB and SLOB and SLUB rules offhand: > I'm not sure it's safe to rely on such alignment on all of them ....
It doesn't work that way with SLOB kmalloc (nor did it in pre-slabified kmalloc). One shouldn't be surprised if a SLAB/SLUB debugging feature breaks that alignment either. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
