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

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Pekka J Enberg wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> > Note that this will fix the kmem_cache_init() case too. If 
> > ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN is greater than BYTES_PER_WORD, we'll disable 
> > debugging for those caches. It's obviously ok to have debugging for 
> > kmem_cache_init caches too if ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN is greater than or 
> > equal to BYTES_PER_WORD.
> 
> Eh, meant "if ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN is less than or equal to 
> BYTES_PER_WORD" obviously.

Your patch only deals with ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN. kmem_cache_create() never 
uses ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN only kmem_cache_init() does by passing it to 
kmem_cache_create.  ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN will still be ignored.
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