From: Manfred <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: "Hen, Shmulik" <shmulik.hen@intel.com>
Cc: "'LKML'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel memory allocations alignment
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 16:56:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A7D7B9D.9785603F@colorfullife.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <07E6E3B8C072D211AC4100A0C9C5758302B27119@hasmsx52.iil.intel.com>
"Hen, Shmulik" wrote:
>
> When using kmalloc(size_t size), do I get a guaranty that the memory region
> allocated is aligned according to the size specified ?
> More to the point, if I call kmalloc for type int on an IA64 architecture is
> the pointer going to be 8 bytes aligned ?
>
Yes, kmalloc results are always 'sizeof(void*)' aligned.
Do you have stricter alignment requirements?
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Manfred
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-04 14:19 kernel memory allocations alignment Hen, Shmulik
2001-02-04 15:56 ` Manfred [this message]
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2001-02-04 16:15 Hen, Shmulik
2001-02-04 17:00 ` Andi Kleen
2001-02-04 18:17 ` Johannes Erdfelt
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