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    SLUB: change default alignments · 47bfdc0d
    Christoph Lameter authored
    
    
    Structures may contain u64 items on 32 bit platforms that are only able to
    address 64 bit items on 64 bit boundaries.  Change the mininum alignment of
    slabs to conform to those expectations.
    
    ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN must be changed for good since a variety of structure
    are mixed in the general slabs.
    
    ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN is changed because currently there is no consistent
    specification of object alignment.  We may have that in the future when the
    KMEM_CACHE and related macros are used to generate slabs.  These pass the
    alignment of the structure generated by the compiler to the slab.
    
    With KMEM_CACHE etc we could align structures that do not contain 64
    bit values to 32 bit boundaries potentially saving some memory.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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