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Date:   Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:57:43 -0700
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
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        "Darrick J . Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm, sl[aou]b: guarantee natural alignment for
 kmalloc(power-of-two)
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On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 01:16:27PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> @@ -98,6 +98,10 @@ limited. The actual limit depends on the hardware and the kernel
>  configuration, but it is a good practice to use `kmalloc` for objects
>  smaller than page size.
>  
> +The address of a chunk allocated with `kmalloc` is aligned to at least
> +ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN bytes. For sizes of power of two bytes, the

"For sizes which are a power of two, the"

> +alignment is also guaranteed to be at least to the respective size.

s/to //

Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>