malloc memory to be 32 byte aligned in kernel

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 17:00:13 -0800, m silverstri said:
> Thanks. How big should be my  slab cache and how to allocate from that?

kmem_cache_alloc() and kmem_cache_free() are your friends.

> And to declare a struct ' __attribute__(aligned(32))'', does that mean
> I do that for every file in my struct?

I'm guessing you mean "for every field in my struct".  And the answer is
no, unless you actually need the alignment/padding for every field. You
declare the struct wrapping all the stuff you need and give that the aligned().
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