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

[Håvard Skinnemoen]

On 7/10/07, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Håvard Skinnemoen wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Should be fixed in mm, I believe: slob-improved-alignment-handling.patch

Indeed. Thanks, I'll give it a try later today.

Håvard
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