On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 08:06:53AM +0100, Petr Tesarik wrote: > Well, then let's make it a boot option (or a sysctl). The default must > be psr.ac = 1, but if the admin sees "unaligned access" messages and > knows that there is no way of getting a (timely) fix for that particular > production system, s/he should be able to turn them off. Or how about ia64 does what every other Linux port does and turn off alignment warnings altogether? Are they *particularly* expensive on Itanium? I bet they aren't. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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