Re: kmalloc() alignment

From: Manfred Spraul (manfred@colorfullife.com)
Date: Sun Mar 04 2001 - 17:41:12 EST

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>
> Does kmalloc() make any guarantees of the alignment of allocated
> blocks? Will the returned block always be 4-, 8- or 16-byte
> aligned, for example?
>

4-byte alignment is guaranteed on 32-bit cpus, 8-byte alignment on
64-bit cpus.

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