>
> Does kmalloc() make any guarantees of the alignment of allocated
> blocks? Will the returned block always be 4-, 8- or 16-byte
> aligned, for example?
>
4-byte alignment is guaranteed on 32-bit cpus, 8-byte alignment on
64-bit cpus.
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