From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: kenn@linux.ie
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kmalloc() alignment
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 23:41:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AA2C488.54A792AD@colorfullife.com> (raw)
>
> Does kmalloc() make any guarantees of the alignment of allocated
> blocks? Will the returned block always be 4-, 8- or 16-byte
> aligned, for example?
>
4-byte alignment is guaranteed on 32-bit cpus, 8-byte alignment on
64-bit cpus.
--
Manfred
next reply other threads:[~2001-03-04 22:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-04 22:41 Manfred Spraul [this message]
2001-03-06 0:06 ` kmalloc() alignment Kenn Humborg
2001-03-06 0:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-03-06 0:29 ` Kenn Humborg
2001-03-06 2:14 ` Alan Cox
2001-03-06 5:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-03-06 8:31 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-03-06 12:10 ` Xavier Bestel
2001-03-07 7:53 ` RAID, 2.4.2 and Buslogic Jauder Ho
2001-03-07 8:20 ` Andreas Dilger
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2003-05-05 22:03 kmalloc alignment Thomas Heinz
2001-03-04 22:17 kmalloc() alignment Kenn Humborg
2001-03-04 22:34 ` Alan Cox
2001-03-05 9:40 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-03-05 13:24 ` Alan Cox
2001-03-05 13:22 ` Rogier Wolff
2001-03-06 8:59 ` Philipp Rumpf
2001-03-06 12:14 ` Alan Cox
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