Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm, sl[aou]b: guarantee natural alignment for kmalloc(power-of-two)

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On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 01:53:12PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > Its enabled in all full debug session as far as I know. Fedora for
> > example has been running this for ages to find breakage in device drivers
> > etc etc.
> 
> Are you telling me nobody uses the ramdisk driver on fedora?  Because
> that's one of the affected drivers.

For pmem/brd misaligned memory alone doesn't seem to be the problem.
Misaligned memory that cross a page barrier is.  And at least XFS
before my log recovery changes only used kmalloc for smaller than
page size allocation, so this case probably didn't hit.  But other
cases where alignment and not just not crossing a page boundary
occurred and we had problems with those before.  It just too a long
time for people to root cause them.



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