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    SubjectRe: Linux 3.3-rc4
    On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> wrote:
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    > I think the patch attached to your original post needs a little work if
    > that is to be used. Correct me if I'm wrong but AFAICT there are more
    > architectures that use 8-byte alignment than just x86-64, such as alpha,
    > ia64 and ppc64 and I believe they may also be used in a compat mode.

    The only issue is compat mode, and afaik, all other architectures
    except for x86-32 do __u64 with natural alignment.

    So all 64-bit architectures use natural alignment, the only issue is
    the alignment of __u64 in 32-bit mode.

    So it really is *not* about 8-byte alignment. Quite the reverse. It's
    about 4-byte alignment of 64-bit entities, and I suspect x86-32 is the
    only one that does that.

    See "compat_u64", and notice how only in arch/x86/include/asm/compat.h
    do we have

    typedef u64 __attribute__((aligned(4))) compat_u64;

    So it really is limited to only x86.

    Linus


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