Re: [patch 09/10] Remove the SLOB allocator for 2.6.23

[Håvard Skinnemoen]

On 7/10/07, Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The only remaining known bug is arguably a problem in nommu that SLOB
> shouldn't be papering over.

I've got another one for you: SLOB ignores ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN so
using SLOB in combination with DMA and non-coherent architectures
causes data corruption.

That said, there are currently very few architectures that define
ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN, so I guess it might be something I'm doing
wrong on avr32. But I'd really like to know how other non-coherent
architectures handle DMA to buffers sharing cachelines with unrelated
data...

Håvard
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