The patch titled Subject: include/linux/rbtree.h: avoid pointless rb_node alignment has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was lib-rbtree-avoid-pointless-rb_node-alignment.patch This patch was dropped because it had testing failures ------------------------------------------------------ From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: include/linux/rbtree.h: avoid pointless rb_node alignment Now that Linux no longer supports the CRIS architecture, we can drop this fishy alignment. Apparently this was need to prevent misalignments in struct address_space. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200110215429.30360-1-dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/rbtree.h | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/rbtree.h~lib-rbtree-avoid-pointless-rb_node-alignment +++ a/include/linux/rbtree.h @@ -25,8 +25,7 @@ struct rb_node { unsigned long __rb_parent_color; struct rb_node *rb_right; struct rb_node *rb_left; -} __attribute__((aligned(sizeof(long)))); - /* The alignment might seem pointless, but allegedly CRIS needs it */ +}; struct rb_root { struct rb_node *rb_node; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx are ipc-mqueuec-remove-duplicated-code.patch