Re: [patch 2/2] slab: always consider arch mandated alignment

[Pekka J Enberg]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> It's enough to fix the ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN problem. But it does _not_ fix the
> ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN problem. s390 currently only uses ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN
> since that should be good enough and it doesn't disable as much debugging
> as ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN does.
> What exactly isn't clear from the description of the first patch? Or why do
> you consider it bogus?

Now I am confused. What do you mean by "doesn't disable as much debugging 
as ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN does"? AFAICT, the SLAB_RED_ZONE and SLAB_STORE_USER 
options _require_ BYTES_PER_WORD alignment, so if s390 requires 8 
byte alignment, you can't have them debugging anyhow...

				Pekka
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