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From: "Hen, Shmulik" <shmulik.hen@intel.com>
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Subject: kernel memory allocations alignment
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 06:19:03 -0800 
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Hello,

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 ?


	Shmulik Hen
	Software Engineer
	Linux Advanced Networking Services
	Network Communications Group, Israel (NCGj)
	Intel Corporation Ltd.


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