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| author | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2019-10-29 04:43:29 -0600 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2019-10-29 04:43:29 -0600 |
| commit | 822bbba0cabb50825a0ce22707dc45eb82d02853 (patch) | |
| tree | ea61d4ca72cb60b4cae8e95f64eefa7cd2a36603 /Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst | |
| parent | d41abfd7ae33cd3c1d9189438937d61cb75e690a (diff) | |
| parent | 7d194c2100ad2a6dded545887d02754948ca5241 (diff) | |
Merge tag 'v5.4-rc4' into docs-next
I need to pick up the independent changes made to
Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst to be able to merge further
work without creating a total mess.
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diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst b/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst index 7744aa3bf2e0..939e3dfc86e9 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst @@ -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 which are a power of two, the +alignment is also guaranteed to be at least the respective size. + For large allocations you can use :c:func:`vmalloc` and :c:func:`vzalloc`, or directly request pages from the page allocator. The memory allocated by `vmalloc` and related functions is |