Re: [PATCH] nommu: fix kobjsize() for SLOB and SLUB

Christoph Lameter
2008-05-28T17:27:10Z

On Wed, 28 May 2008, David Howells wrote:

> David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > Works for SLAB and SLUB. SLOB breaks well before getting to anything these
> > patches affect.
>
> Okay... The problem with SLOB is that it can return large objects (8Kb in this
> case) that aren't 8-byte aligned. This screws up FRV as it expects to be able
> to use load and store-double instructions, which fault if they don't get
> 8-byte (double register) alignment.

Right. SLAB/SLUB align to long long. SLOB needs to do the same.