Re: [PATCH] mm/slob: avoid type warning about alignment value

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wednesday 11 July 2012, David Rientjes wrote:
> Wouldn't it be better to avoid this problem more generally by casting the 
> __alignof__ for ARCH_{KMALLOC,SLAB}_MINALIGN to int in slab.h?  All 
> architectures that define these themselves will be using plain integers, 
> the problem is __alignof__ returning size_t when undefined.

I thought about it but I wasn't sure if that would cover all possible
cases. My version at least is known not to introduce a different type
mismatch on another architecture.

Also, size_t seems to be the correct type here, while the untyped
definition is just an int.

	Arnd
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