Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: powerpc problem with .data.page_aligned -> __page_aligned_data conversion | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:00:09 +1100 |
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On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 12:37 -0400, Tim Abbott wrote: > Just to make sure I understand the nature of the problem, is the > current > breakage that gcc < 4.3 will _warn_ on any compilation units on ppc64 > that > use __page_aligned data, or something worse? > > The cropping is clearly a potential problem, but I read the rest of > your > email as saying that the cropping of the alignment isn't actually a > problem with the current kernel because the kernel is currently only > using > the macro with things whose size is divisible by PAGE_SIZE. However, > I am > not sure how to reconcile that with using the word "break" above...
Break is because we use -Werror on arch/powerpc :-)
Ben.
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