Re: upcoming kerneloops.org item: get_page_from_freelist

From: Eric Sandeen
Date: Mon Jun 29 2009 - 17:21:23 EST


Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>
>> I'll test it; it'd be great if it did, I'm um, a bit ashamed at how I
>> fixed it ;)
>
> Isnt the problem that the slab allocator did not align something that
> you did not request to be aligned?

Well, maybe that's all I needed. At the risk of exposing myself to
ridicule, here's the commit:

7fcba054373d5dfc43d26e243a5c9b92069972ee

Was there a better way?

-Eric
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