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

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To: David Howells <dhowells@...>

Cc: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...>, <mpm@...>, <lethal@...>, <linux-kernel@...>

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

Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 1:26 pm

On Wed, 28 May 2008, David Howells wrote:

quoted text> 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.


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[PATCH] nommu: fix kobjsize() for SLOB and SLUB, Pekka J Enberg, (Thu May 22, 12:09 pm)

Re: [PATCH] nommu: fix kobjsize() for SLOB and SLUB, David Howells, (Wed May 28, 9:12 am)

Re: [PATCH] nommu: fix kobjsize() for SLOB and SLUB, David Howells, (Wed May 28, 10:27 am)

Re: [PATCH] nommu: fix kobjsize() for SLOB and SLUB, David Howells, (Wed May 28, 10:09 am)

Re: [PATCH] nommu: fix kobjsize() for SLOB and SLUB, Christoph Lameter, (Wed May 28, 1:26 pm)

Re: [PATCH] nommu: fix kobjsize() for SLOB and SLUB, David Howells, (Wed May 28, 1:38 pm)

Re: [PATCH] nommu: fix kobjsize() for SLOB and SLUB, Mike Frysinger, (Wed May 28, 4:35 pm)

Re: [PATCH] nommu: fix kobjsize() for SLOB and SLUB, David Howells, (Thu May 29, 9:03 am)

Re: [PATCH] nommu: fix kobjsize() for SLOB and SLUB, Mike Frysinger, (Thu May 29, 4:25 pm)

Re: [PATCH] nommu: fix kobjsize() for SLOB and SLUB, Christoph Lameter, (Thu May 29, 4:30 pm)

Re: [PATCH] nommu: fix kobjsize() for SLOB and SLUB, Mike Frysinger, (Thu May 29, 4:51 pm)

Re: [PATCH] nommu: fix kobjsize() for SLOB and SLUB, Christoph Lameter, (Thu May 29, 5:29 pm)

Re: [PATCH] nommu: fix kobjsize() for SLOB and SLUB, Mike Frysinger, (Fri May 30, 12:18 am)

Re: [PATCH] nommu: fix kobjsize() for SLOB and SLUB, Pekka J Enberg, (Wed May 28, 9:17 am)

Re: [PATCH] nommu: fix kobjsize() for SLOB and SLUB, David Howells, (Wed May 28, 9:40 am)

Re: [PATCH] nommu: fix kobjsize() for SLOB and SLUB, Paul Mundt, (Thu May 22, 7:40 pm)

Re: [PATCH] nommu: fix kobjsize() for SLOB and SLUB, Christoph Lameter, (Thu May 22, 7:45 pm)

Re: [PATCH] nommu: fix kobjsize() for SLOB and SLUB, Paul Mundt, (Thu May 22, 7:50 pm)

Re: [PATCH] nommu: fix kobjsize() for SLOB and SLUB, Christoph Lameter, (Thu May 22, 8:04 pm)

Re: [PATCH] nommu: fix kobjsize() for SLOB and SLUB, Christoph Lameter, (Thu May 22, 12:48 pm)


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