From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754764Ab0ERU7j (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 May 2010 16:59:39 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:34617 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752881Ab0ERU7h (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 May 2010 16:59:37 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 13:59:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20100518.135945.180391159.davem@davemloft.net> To: mpm@selenic.com Cc: herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au, ken@codelabs.ch, geert@linux-m68k.org, michael-dev@fami-braun.de, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp Subject: Re: [BUG] SLOB breaks Crypto From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1274211235.11603.1205.camel@calx> References: <20100518102701.GA7293@gondor.apana.org.au> <20100518.122512.73694279.davem@davemloft.net> <1274211235.11603.1205.camel@calx> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Matt Mackall Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 14:33:55 -0500 > SLOB honors ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN. If your arch has alignment > requirements, I recommend you set it. I recommend that the alignment provided by the allocator is not determined by which allocator I happen to have enabled. The values and ifdef'ery should be identical in all of our allocators.