Re: [patch 2/2] slab: always consider arch mandated alignment

[Heiko Carstens]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 02:16:06PM +0300, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > We only specify ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN, since that aligns only the kmalloc
> > caches, but it doesn't disable debugging on other caches that are created
> > via kmem_cache_create() where an alignment of e.g. 0 is specified.
> > 
> > The point of the first patch is: why should the slab cache be allowed to chose
> > an aligment that is less than what the caller specified? This does very likely
> > break things.
> 
> Ah, yes, you are absolutely right. We need to respect caller mandated 
> alignment too. How about this?

Works fine and looks much better than my two patches. Thanks!
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