On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 08:01:12PM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > > Why do algorithms require alignments bigger than ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN? Because the hardware may require it. For example, the VIA Padlock will fault unless the buffers are 16-byte aligned (it being an x86-32 platform). Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
