Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:54:20 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Introduce compat_u64 and compat_s64 types |
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> > > Why does it break them? It should just make them a little slower. > > Not all CPUs deliver recoverable misalignment exceptions. > These CPUs are too broken to run Linux then.
People fixed that up > > > > The network code requires unaligned accesses to work anyways so if your > > > architecture doesn't support them it is already remotely crashable. > > > > I thought we'd fixed all that. > > Did you audit the complete network stack?
For the parts used by the processors in question yes people have done that work so using the types without unaligned.
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