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diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst b/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst index 1c58d883b273..8b84eb4bdae7 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst @@ -144,8 +144,10 @@ configuration, but it is a good practice to use `kmalloc` for objects smaller than page size. The address of a chunk allocated with `kmalloc` is aligned to at least -ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN bytes. For sizes which are a power of two, the -alignment is also guaranteed to be at least the respective size. +ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN bytes. For sizes which are a power of two, the +alignment is also guaranteed to be at least the respective size. For other +sizes, the alignment is guaranteed to be at least the largest power-of-two +divisor of the size. Chunks allocated with kmalloc() can be resized with krealloc(). Similarly to kmalloc_array(): a helper for resizing arrays is provided in the form of |