Re: [BUG] SLOB breaks Crypto

From: Matt Mackall
Date: Tue May 18 2010 - 15:34:12 EST


On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 12:25 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 20:27:01 +1000
>
> > I think the simplest fix is to revert this changeset.
>
> If you revert then you'll break sparc.
>
> Sparc needs long long alignment, so it's SLOB that needs to
> change if it isn't providing at least that much alignment
> by default.

SLOB honors ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN. If your arch has alignment
requirements, I recommend you set it.

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