Re: copy_page() on a kmalloc-ed page with DEBUG_SLAB enabled (was "zram: do not use copy_page with non-page alinged address")

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 10:20:42AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Simple solution is to not allocate pages via the slab allocator but use
> the page allocator for this. The page allocator provides proper alignment.
> 
> There is a reason it is called the page allocator because if you want a
> page you use the proper allocator for it.

Previous discussion on this topic:

https://lwn.net/Articles/669015/
https://lwn.net/Articles/669020/