Re: [PATCH] Shrink rbtree

[David Woodhouse]

On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 23:06 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> How do we know the pointers are always going to be aligned? IIRC
> struct address_space needed to be explicitly aligned when doing
> this trick in page->mapping because some platform byte aligned it.

Really? I've been doing this kind of trick with the jffs2_raw_node_ref
for years. We always allocate sufficiently aligned objects.

-- 
dwmw2

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