Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm, sl[aou]b: guarantee natural alignment for kmalloc(power-of-two)

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Mon Sep 23 2019 - 14:57:54 EST


On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 01:16:27PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> @@ -98,6 +98,10 @@ limited. The actual limit depends on the hardware and the kernel
> configuration, but it is a good practice to use `kmalloc` for objects
> smaller than page size.
>
> +The address of a chunk allocated with `kmalloc` is aligned to at least
> +ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN bytes. For sizes of power of two bytes, the

"For sizes which are a power of two, the"

> +alignment is also guaranteed to be at least to the respective size.

s/to //

Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>