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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2]: ftrace: Remove packed attribute on ftrace_page.
David Miller wrote:
> It causes unaligned access traps on platforms like sparc
> (ftrace_page may be marked packed, but once we return
> a dyn_ftrace sub-object from this array to another piece
> of code, the "packed" part of the typing information doesn't
> propagate).
>
> But also, it didn't serve any purpose either. Even if packed,
> on 64-bit or 32-bit, it didn't give us any more dyn_ftrace
> entries per-page.
>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>

-- Steve


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