>>>>> "Olaf" == Olaf Hering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Olaf> kmalloc_node returns unaligned pointers on powerpc, when Olaf> CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB is enabled. This makes iptables very Olaf> unhappy. It checks the alignment in Olaf> net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c:check_entry_size_and_hooks(). Olaf> __alignof__(struct ip6t_entry) returns 8. But returned pointers Olaf> from xt_alloc_table_info() are unaligned: Hi Olaf, I believe this is expected behavior ;-( We have the same problem with the XPC driver for the SN2 which resulted in a wrapper macro being created for it. Some sort of SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN flag to Slab that was always respected for this would be nice. Cheers, Jes - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
