Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] nommu: fix kobjsize() for SLOB and SLUB | Date | Wed, 28 May 2008 15:09:18 +0100 |
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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.
David
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