Re: block: DMA alignment of IO buffer allocated from slab

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On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 05:15:43PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> 1) does kmalloc-N slab guarantee to return N-byte aligned buffer?  If
> yes, is it a stable rule?

This is the assumption in a lot of the kernel, so I think if somethings
breaks this we are in a lot of pain.



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