On Tue, 11 May 2010, Mike Frysinger wrote: > and like i said, that doesnt sound like a reasonable solution when > every single SPI driver (over 100 atm) out there is affected If you are on an embedded arch then you can of course set the default kmalloc alignment. The requirement for kmalloc is that it returns memory that can be used for DMA. If the arch can only DMA into cacheline aligned objects then the correct method is to force kmalloc alignment to cacheline size. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html