Re: kmalloc() alignment

[Alan Cox]

> > There are people who assume 16byte alignment guarantees. I dont think anyone
> > has formally specified the guarantee beyond 4 bytes tho
> 
> Userspace malloc is "suitably aligned for any kind of variable", so I think
> expecting 8 bytes alignment (long long on 32-bit platforms) should be okay.
> 
> >From reading the code it seems as though we actually use L1_CACHE_BYTES,
> and I think it might be a good idea to document the current behaviour (as
> long as there's no good reason to change it ?)

With slab poisoning I dont belive this is true