Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:04:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
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Subject: Re: iwlagn: order 2 page allocation failures
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On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Mel Gorman wrote:

> The allocation of buffers >= PAGE_SIZE even when allocated with
> kmalloc() are page-aligned though right? It's not an explicit guarantee
> but is it not always the case?

Its typically the case but debug options may misalign the object. The
guarantee for kmalloc caches is to be cacheline aligned.