On Sun, Feb 04, 2001, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Hen, Shmulik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Actually yes. We were warned that on IA64 architecture the system will halt
> > when accessing any type of variable via a pointer if the pointer does not
> > contain an aligned address m
"Hen, Shmulik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Actually yes. We were warned that on IA64 architecture the system will halt
> when accessing any type of variable via a pointer if the pointer does not
> contain an aligned address matching that type. Until now we were using a
That will need to be fix
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From: Manfred [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 5:56 PM
To: Hen, Shmulik
Cc: 'LKML'
Subject: Re: kernel memory allocations alignment
"Hen, Shmulik" wrote:
>
> When using kmalloc(size_t size), do I get a guaranty that the memory
region
>
"Hen, Shmulik" wrote:
>
> When using kmalloc(size_t size), do I get a guaranty that the memory region
> allocated is aligned according to the size specified ?
> More to the point, if I call kmalloc for type int on an IA64 architecture is
> the pointer going to be 8 bytes aligned ?
>
Yes, kmalloc
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