The patch titled
Subject: mm-slb-guarantee-natural-alignment-for-kmallocpower-of-two-fix
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-slb-guarantee-natural-alignment-for-kmallocpower-of-two-fix.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-slb-guarantee-natural-alignment-for-kmallocpower-of-two-fix.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-slb-guarantee-natural-alignment-for-kmallocpower-of-two-fix.patch
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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm-slb-guarantee-natural-alignment-for-kmallocpower-of-two-fix
documentation fixlet, per Matthew
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst~mm-slb-guarantee-natural-alignment-for-kmallocpower-of-two-fix
+++ a/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst
@@ -99,8 +99,8 @@ configuration, but it is a good practice
smaller than page size.
The address of a chunk allocated with `kmalloc` is aligned to at least
-ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN bytes. For sizes of power of two bytes, the
-alignment is also guaranteed to be at least to the respective size.
+ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN bytes. For sizes which are a power of two, the
+alignment is also guaranteed to be at least the respective size.
For large allocations you can use :c:func:`vmalloc` and
:c:func:`vzalloc`, or directly request pages from the page
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
ocfs2-clear-zero-in-unaligned-direct-io-checkpatch-fixes.patch
fs-ocfs2-fix-possible-null-pointer-dereferences-in-ocfs2_xa_prepare_entry-fix.patch
mm.patch
mm-slb-guarantee-natural-alignment-for-kmallocpower-of-two-fix.patch
mm-oom-avoid-printk-iteration-under-rcu-fix.patch
diff-sucks.patch
mm-introduce-madv_cold-fix.patch
mm-introduce-madv_pageout-fix-fix.patch
drivers-tty-serial-sh-scic-suppress-warning.patch
kernel-forkc-export-kernel_thread-to-modules.patch
