On 01/08/2011 08:04 PM, Chris Tyler wrote: > On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 14:59 -0500, Chris Tyler wrote: >> I also think that it's unnecessary to eliminate all alignment issues -- >> in many cases, kernel fixups may actually be cheaper to run than the >> defensive code necessary to avoid them, and hardware fixups are even >> cheaper. Furthermore, running on an armv7 or higher processor won't >> trigger the alignment traps at all, so we won't even know that there are >> issues (just as we don't know, nor care, in an x86 context). > > (Let me clarify that an app that's generating thousands of alignment > traps a second should get some attention! I'm talking about the more > typical case of a handful of traps a day). If it's only a handful per day, then that's a good argument for a fixup+signal - get the core dump so you can actually find out what the data that caused the problem was. Gordan _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
