Re: [patch] slab: always follow arch requested alignments

[Pekka J Enberg]

Hi Heiko,

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> Since I didn't get an ACK or NACK, I split this patch into two very small
> ones and repost them. Hopefully with a better description than the first
> time.

I don't see ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN defined for s390, what's up with that? I 
agree that we should always respect ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN no matter what. 
Does the included patch fix that for you?

				Pekka

[PATCH] slab: respect mandated minimum architecture alignment

The slab debugging code for SLAB_RED_ZONE and SLAB_STORE_USER require 
BYTES_PER_WORD alignment for the caches. However, for some architectures, 
the mandated minimum alignment might be bigger than that, so disable 
debugging for those cases instead of crashing the machine.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 0f20843..0346311 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -2123,6 +2123,13 @@ #endif
 #if DEBUG
 	cachep->obj_size = size;
 
+	/*
+	 * Debugging requires BYTES_PER_WORD alignment but we must always
+	 * respect ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN so disable debugging if necessary.
+	 */
+	if (ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN > BYTES_PER_WORD)
+		flags &= ~(SLAB_RED_ZONE | SLAB_STORE_USER);
+
 	if (flags & SLAB_RED_ZONE) {
 		/* redzoning only works with word aligned caches */
 		align = BYTES_PER_WORD;
-
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