+ /* Check that size is in terms of words. This is needed to avoid
+ * unaligned accesses for some archs when redzoning is used, and makes
+ * sure any on-slab bufctl's are also correctly aligned.
+ */
+ if (size & (BYTES_PER_WORD-1)) {
+ size += (BYTES_PER_WORD-1);
+ size &= ~(BYTES_PER_WORD-1);
+ }
+
+ /* calculate out the final buffer alignment: */
+ /* 1) arch recommendation: can be overridden for debug */
+ if (flags & SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN) {
+ /* Default alignment: as specified by the arch code.
+ * Except if an object is really small, then squeeze multiple
+ * objects into one cacheline.