Re: [PATCH 09/11] kexec: avoid effectively open-coding xzalloc_flex_struct()

2021-04-09 Thread Jan Beulich
On 09.04.2021 14:54, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 08/04/2021 13:21, Jan Beulich wrote: >> There is a difference in generated code: xzalloc_bytes() forces >> SMP_CACHE_BYTES alignment. I think we not only don't need this here, but >> actually don't want it. >> >> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich > > This h

Re: [PATCH 09/11] kexec: avoid effectively open-coding xzalloc_flex_struct()

2021-04-09 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 08/04/2021 13:21, Jan Beulich wrote: > There is a difference in generated code: xzalloc_bytes() forces > SMP_CACHE_BYTES alignment. I think we not only don't need this here, but > actually don't want it. > > Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich This honestly looks like a backwards step.  In particular,