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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] mm: Move ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN and ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN
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Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Maybe we can consolidate that into slab.h so that the alignment is the
> same for all allocators?

But we don't want that for SLOB as discussed in the other thread. It 
really wants to be sizeof(unsigned long), not sizeof(unsigned long long).

			Pekka