+ mm-slb-guarantee-natural-alignment-for-kmallocpower-of-two-fix.patch added to -mm tree

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



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

Before you just go and hit "reply", please:
   a) Consider who else should be cc'ed
   b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well
   c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a
      reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's

*** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code ***

The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated
there every 3-4 working days

------------------------------------------------------
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




[Index of Archives]     [Kernel Archive]     [IETF Annouce]     [DCCP]     [Netdev]     [Networking]     [Security]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux SCSI]

  Powered by Linux