Hi James,

attached is a patch that implements forced alignment for kmalloc. I'm a 
bit reluctant to send it to Andrew- it's a big change, it even redefines 
the kmem_cache_create prototype.
I would prefer to postpone it for now, but if you need it - feel free to 
send it to Andrew.
Architectures that need special alignment of kmalloc, beyond 
BYTES_PER_WORD, must define __ARCH_FORCE_KMALLOCALIGN appropriately.

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    Manfred