Hi David, On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:20 AM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Why? It doesn't make much sense for SLOB, which tries to be as space >> efficient as possible, as a default. If things break on sparc, it >> really needs to set ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN as slab default alignment is >> not something you really want to depend on. > > I think it does make sense to expect that, whatever my architecture > defines or does not define, I can expect the allocators to provide the > same minimum alignment guarentee. Otherwise it is no guarantee at all. They're not a guarantee, the default values are just "oh, you don't care about alignment, let me provide one for you". > I'll add the define for sparc, but saying "sparc's fault" is bogus > because I defined what was necessary to get SLAB/SLUB to provide the > necessary alignment. SLOB pays for choosing not to use the same > calculations for minimum alignment as the other allocators, and > therefore pays for being different in this regard. > > And in fact I do know that the ifdef'ery in SLAB/SLUB is derived from > a change long ago that was specifically added to handle platforms like > sparc. > > So one of two things should happen: > > 1) SLOB conforms to SLAB/SLUB in it's test > > 2) SLAB/SLUB conforms to SLOB in it's test > > And yes this is an either-or, you can't say they are both valid. I don't agree with that. The default values are subject to change and as pointed out by Paul, they have done so in the past. If you architecture has alignment requirements for _correctness_ you absolutely need to define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN. Pekka -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html