On Fri, 13 Nov 2015, Andreas Krebbel1 wrote: > this appears to be the result of aligning struct page to more than 8 bytes > and putting it onto the stack - wich is only 8 bytes aligned. The > compiler has to perform runtime alignment to achieve that. It allocates > memory using *alloca* and does the math with the returned pointer. Our > dynamic stack allocation option basically only checks if there is an > alloca user. The slub uses of struct page only require an alignment of the page struct on the stack to a word. So its fine. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>