On Wed, 28 May 2008, David Howells wrote:

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> David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Works for SLAB and SLUB.  SLOB breaks well before getting to anything these
> > patches affect.
> 
> Okay...  The problem with SLOB is that it can return large objects (8Kb in this
> case) that aren't 8-byte aligned.  This screws up FRV as it expects to be able
> to use load and store-double instructions, which fault if they don't get
> 8-byte (double register) alignment.

Right. SLAB/SLUB align to long long. SLOB needs to do the same.


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