Re: crisv32 runtime failure in -next due to 'page-flags: define behavior SL*B-related flags on compound pages'
From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Wed Sep 23 2015 - 06:54:12 EST
On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 08:40:14AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 06:31:04PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 08:18:35AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 03:57:06PM +0200, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> > > > I guess you hit the right spot, but I'd think people would be
> > > > more comfortable with aligning to sizeof (void *).
> > >
> > > I would indeed prefer sizeof(void *).
> >
> > Do you prefer to have the attribute set for whole structure or for ->next?
> > I think attribute on ->next is more appropriate from documentation POV.
I retract this claim: we have requirement about pointee alignment, not
pointer alignment.