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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2019-10-19 22:51:25 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2019-10-20 10:43:00 -0700
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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net
Several cases of overlapping changes which were for the most part trivially resolvable. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
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@@ -493,6 +493,10 @@ static __always_inline void *kmalloc_large(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
* kmalloc is the normal method of allocating memory
* for objects smaller than page size in the kernel.
*
+ * The allocated object address is aligned to at least ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN
+ * bytes. For @size of power of two bytes, the alignment is also guaranteed
+ * to be at least to the size.
+ *
* The @flags argument may be one of the GFP flags defined at
* include/linux/gfp.h and described at
* :ref:`Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst <mm-api-gfp-flags>`