From: Matt Mackall Subject: Re: [BUG] SLOB breaks Crypto Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 14:33:55 -0500 Message-ID: <1274211235.11603.1205.camel@calx> References: <1274135869.11603.473.camel@calx> <4BF24D1F.6010005@codelabs.ch> <20100518102701.GA7293@gondor.apana.org.au> <20100518.122512.73694279.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, ken@codelabs.ch, geert@linux-m68k.org, michael-dev@fami-braun.de, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from waste.org ([173.11.57.241]:41922 "EHLO waste.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752384Ab0ERTd7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 May 2010 15:33:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100518.122512.73694279.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 12:25 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Herbert Xu > Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 20:27:01 +1000 > > > I think the simplest fix is to revert this changeset. > > If you revert then you'll break sparc. > > Sparc needs long long alignment, so it's SLOB that needs to > change if it isn't providing at least that much alignment > by default. SLOB honors ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN. If your arch has alignment requirements, I recommend you set it. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.