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slab allocators: Remove obsolete SLAB_MUST_HWCACHE_ALIGN

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This patch was recently posted to lkml and acked by Pekka.

The flag SLAB_MUST_HWCACHE_ALIGN is

1. Never checked by SLAB at all.

2. A duplicate of SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN for SLUB

3. Fulfills the role of SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN for SLOB.

The only remaining use is in sparc64 and ppc64 and their use there
reflects some earlier role that the slab flag once may have had. If
its specified then SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN is also specified.

The flag is confusing, inconsistent and has no purpose.

Remove it.

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Lameter
2007-05-06 14:49:56 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 96018fdacb
commit 5af6083990
7 changed files with 9 additions and 14 deletions
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@@ -175,12 +175,12 @@
# define CREATE_MASK (SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL | SLAB_RED_ZONE | \
SLAB_POISON | SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN | \
SLAB_CACHE_DMA | \
SLAB_MUST_HWCACHE_ALIGN | SLAB_STORE_USER | \
SLAB_STORE_USER | \
SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT | SLAB_PANIC | \
SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU | SLAB_MEM_SPREAD)
#else
# define CREATE_MASK (SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN | \
SLAB_CACHE_DMA | SLAB_MUST_HWCACHE_ALIGN | \
SLAB_CACHE_DMA | \
SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT | SLAB_PANIC | \
SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU | SLAB_MEM_SPREAD)
#endif