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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/slab.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/slab.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h index ab2b98ad76e1..4d2a2fa55ed5 100644 --- a/include/linux/slab.h +++ b/include/linux/slab.h @@ -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>` |