Re: [PATCH] mm: sparse: use __aligned() instead of manual paddingin mem_section

[Dave Hansen]

On 05/29/2013 04:14 PM, Cody P Schafer wrote:
> Instead of leaving a trap for the next person who comes along and wants
> to add something to mem_section, add an __aligned() and remove the
> manual padding added for MEMCG.

It doesn't need to be aligned technically.  It needs to be a power-of-2:

http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1205.2/03077.html

I'd be quite happy for someone to resurrect that patch, though.  We need
a big fat comment in there.
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