> > There are people who assume 16byte alignment guarantees. I dont think anyone
> > has formally specified the guarantee beyond 4 bytes tho
>
> Userspace malloc is "suitably aligned for any kind of variable", so I think
> expecting 8 bytes alignment (long long on 32-bit platforms) should be okay.
>
> >From reading the code it seems as though we actually use L1_CACHE_BYTES,
> and I think it might be a good idea to document the current behaviour (as
> long as there's no good reason to change it ?)
With slab poisoning I dont belive this is true
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