Re: crisv32 runtime failure in -next due to 'page-flags: define behavior SL*B-related flags on compound pages'

From: Hans-Peter Nilsson
Date: Tue Sep 22 2015 - 12:16:29 EST


> From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 17:31:04 +0200

> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 08:18:35AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 03:57:06PM +0200, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> > > I guess you hit the right spot, but I'd think people would be
> > > more comfortable with aligning to sizeof (void *).
> >
> > I would indeed prefer sizeof(void *).
>
> Do you prefer to have the attribute set for whole structure or for ->next?
> I think attribute on ->next is more appropriate from documentation POV.

Speaking of the documentation POV, I'd recommend adding an
explanatory comment. Here's hoping this was obvious! ;)

brgds, H-P
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