ipc/util.c, ipc_rcu_alloc: cacheline align allocation
authorManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Mon, 8 Jul 2013 23:01:20 +0000 (16:01 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 9 Jul 2013 17:33:28 +0000 (10:33 -0700)
commit196aa0132fc7261f34b10ae1bfb44abc1bc69b3c
tree022d2de428ef8d8c642017adf448790ab803bd96
parent9ad66ae65fc8d3e7e3344310fb0aa835910264fe
ipc/util.c, ipc_rcu_alloc: cacheline align allocation

Enforce that ipc_rcu_alloc returns a cacheline aligned pointer on SMP.

Rationale:

The SysV sem code tries to move the main spinlock into a seperate
cacheline (____cacheline_aligned_in_smp).  This works only if
ipc_rcu_alloc returns cacheline aligned pointers.  vmalloc and kmalloc
return cacheline algined pointers, the implementation of ipc_rcu_alloc
breaks that.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ipc/util.c