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From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
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> Does kmalloc() make any guarantees of the alignment of allocated 
> blocks? Will the returned block always be 4-, 8- or 16-byte 
> aligned, for example? 
>

4-byte alignment is guaranteed on 32-bit cpus, 8-byte alignment on
64-bit cpus.

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	Manfred
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