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slab allocators: Provide generic description of alignment defines 

Provide description for alignment defines.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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Christoph Lameter 2011-06-23 09:36:12 -05:00 committed by Pekka Enberg
parent 3192b920bf
commit 90810645f7
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@ -133,12 +133,22 @@ unsigned int kmem_cache_size(struct kmem_cache *);
#define KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE (1UL << KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH)
#define KMALLOC_MAX_ORDER (KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH - PAGE_SHIFT)
/*
* Some archs want to perform DMA into kmalloc caches and need a guaranteed
* alignment larger than the alignment of a 64-bit integer.
* Setting ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN in arch headers allows that.
*/
#ifdef ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN
#define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN
#else
#define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN __alignof__(unsigned long long)
#endif
/*
* Setting ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN in arch headers allows a different alignment.
* Intended for arches that get misalignment faults even for 64 bit integer
* aligned buffers.
*/
#ifndef ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN
#define ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN __alignof__(unsigned long long)
#endif