On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 01:36:06PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > How about long instead of int. int leaves us with the possibility that
> > something else will expect 8 byte alignment.
>
> How about this?
>
> Align __cmd to ward off kernel unaligned access consoles messages on
> ia64 (and perhaps make an almost imperceptible performance improvement
> on other architectures that can handle unaligned access, but do so
> more slowly than aligned accesses).
By the way, i've been wondering, this unaligned access breaking should have
happened earlier, how did we miss that? Nish, Robin, can you see that in some
older logs?
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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