Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Introduce compat_u64 and compat_s64 types | Date | Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:09:17 +0100 |
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Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> Why does it break them? It should just make them a little slower.
Not all CPUs deliver recoverable misalignment exceptions. This is probably particularly true of NOMMU-mode archs where the CPU designed may have taken the view that if a data exception is delivered, then the whole system is kaput anyway and must be restarted.
> 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.
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