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Date:   Wed, 20 Mar 2019 00:44:25 +0000
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Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] mm, sl[aou]b: test whether kmalloc() alignment works
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On Tue, 19 Mar 2019, Vlastimil Babka wrote:

> Quick and dirty init test that kmalloc() alignment works as expected for
> power-of-two sizes after the previous patch.

There is already an allocator testing function in mm/slub.c. Can you
generalize it or portions and put the into mm/slab_common.c?