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authorStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>2011-07-25 13:59:46 -0400
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2011-07-25 14:53:52 -0400
commit5f00bcb38ef9a980a33c6dbdc0044964b05f22dd (patch)
tree3175fb9375aecb50bde1be0bf4fa8aa8155131d6 /include/linux/slab.h
parent34006cee28f7344f9557a4be3816c7891b1bbab1 (diff)
parentb6844e8f64920cdee620157252169ba63afb0c89 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into devel and apply fixup from Stephen Rothwell:
vfs/nfs: fixup for nfs_open_context change Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index ad4dd1c8d30a..573c809c33d9 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -134,6 +134,26 @@ unsigned int kmem_cache_size(struct kmem_cache *);
#define KMALLOC_MAX_ORDER (KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH - PAGE_SHIFT)
/*
+ * Some archs want to perform DMA into kmalloc caches and need a guaranteed
+ * alignment larger than the alignment of a 64-bit integer.
+ * Setting ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN in arch headers allows that.
+ */
+#ifdef ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN
+#define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN
+#else
+#define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN __alignof__(unsigned long long)
+#endif
+
+/*
+ * Setting ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN in arch headers allows a different alignment.
+ * Intended for arches that get misalignment faults even for 64 bit integer
+ * aligned buffers.
+ */
+#ifndef ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN
+#define ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN __alignof__(unsigned long long)
+#endif
+
+/*
* Common kmalloc functions provided by all allocators
*/
void * __must_check __krealloc(const void *, size_t, gfp_t);