Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:36:30 -0500 | From | Mathieu Desnoyers <> | Subject | [patch 0/3] Fix alignment of custom sections made from structures (v3) |
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Hello,
Here is a patchset that fixes the Ftrace-induced crash experienced on sparc64 discussed in the following thread: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/1/16/2
The third patch changes the Tracepoints to use the more compact alignment scheme proposed here, even though their alignment on 32-byte works fine. This third patch is therefore not a fix per se.
The patchset is based on 2.6.37. Hopefully there are not too many things to update for the current -git.
Changelog since v2: drop the "packed" attribute, because it caused unaligned acceses on sparc64 by dropping the padding between consecutive "int" and "pointer"/"long" fields.
Comments are welcome,
Mathieu
-- Mathieu Desnoyers Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com
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