[PATCH v2 07/23] mm/memblock: drop WARN and use SMP_CACHE_BYTES as a default alignment

Tejun Heo tj at kernel.org
Tue Dec 3 17:58:15 EST 2013


On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 09:27:22PM -0500, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> From: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko at ti.com>
> 
> drop WARN and use SMP_CACHE_BYTES as a default alignment in
> memblock_alloc_base_nid() as recommended by Tejun Heo in
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/13/117.

Can you please add description on why this change is being made?  This
is in preparation of common alloc interface, right?  The patch
description is kinda out-of-blue.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun



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