On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > No, I don't think you can do it this way.
Ultimately not. But its worth to see if this works. > At a minimum, you'd need to test that the result is word-aligned. > Preferably 8-byte aligned. We literally have stuff that knows about these > things and uses the low bits in the pointer to keep extra data. kmalloc allocations are guaranteed to be aligned to KMALLOC_MINALIGN. I can bring that in but it will make the patch less readable. > Of course, there migth be other (even more subtle) cases where we just > assume certain alignment, and depend on the fact that we just _happen_ to > get it. Who knows.. I tried to get rid of those cased and I hope that work is complete in 2.6.22. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
