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SubjectRe: [PATCH][GIT PULL][for 2.6.35] tracing: Add alignment to syscall metadata declarations
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On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 22:53 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> But in this case we have no control of the value of "." (current address)
> when we have processed (_ftrace_events) so it may even be at a 2 byte boundary.
> The linker will add padding as needed to satisfy the alignmnet of
> __syscalls_metadata - but that padding will be inbetween "." and the first
> member in __syscalls_metadata.

Fine, but this is a separate issue. I doubt the "ALIGN(8);" would have
helped us anyway. Remember what the issue we had:

ffffffff8173c438 <__start_syscalls_metadata>:
...

ffffffff8173c440 <__syscall_meta__mmap>:


__start_syscalls_metadata was already aligned to 8, but for some strange
reason, gcc decided to align the first member to 16.

-- Steve




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