From: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: fix alignment problem in rh_alloc_align() with exact-sized blocks
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 13:21:00 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705151320440.14194@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1179160286213-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com>
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Timur Tabi wrote:
> When an rheap is created, the caller can specify the alignment to use. In
> rh_alloc_align(), if a free block is found that is the exact size needed
> (including extra space for alignment), that configured alignment value is not
> used to align the pointer. Instead, the default alignment is used. If the
> default alignment is smaller than the configured alignment, then the returned
> value will not be aligned correctly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/lib/rheap.c | 22 ++++++++--------------
> 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
applied.
- k
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-15 18:25 UTC|newest]
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2007-05-14 16:31 [PATCH] powerpc: fix alignment problem in rh_alloc_align() with exact-sized blocks Timur Tabi
2007-05-15 18:21 ` Kumar Gala [this message]
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