Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 18:13:57 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, H Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] x86, microcode, intel: guard against misaligned
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On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 02:57:31PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Meh, I don't know where I came up with the wrong information that kmalloc
> aligned to 16-bytes instead of 8 bytes.
> 
> I do wonder why I didn't hit this while testing, though.  Maybe an artifact
> of slub, or just my luck that I never got a memory block that was not
> aligned to 16 bytes.

The ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN is conditioned on ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN and a
bunch of other things. All I'm saying is, this needs a careful study
when, if at all, kmalloc will not give an 16-byte aligned buffer.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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