Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 May 2008 09:10:54 -0400 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2]: ftrace: Remove packed attribute on ftrace_page. |
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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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