[PATCH v2 1/2] mm: slab: Introduce __GFP_PACKED for smaller kmalloc() alignments

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri Oct 28 00:32:38 PDT 2022


On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 09:11:49PM +0900, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 09:52:46PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > +/*
> > + * This alignment should be at least sizeof(unsigned long long).
> > + */
> > +#define KMALLOC_PACKED_ALIGN	(KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE)
> > +
> 
> I think __assume_kmalloc_alignment should be changed as well,
> to avoid compiler making wrong decision.

Good point. Thanks.

-- 
Catalin



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