Re: kernel unaligned accesses on IA64 in IDE

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On 22.08.2008 [23:14:47 +0200], Borislav Petkov wrote:
> [adding Jens to CC: ]
> 
> 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).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@xxxxxxxxx>

Tested-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Nish

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Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@xxxxxxxxxx>
IBM Linux Technology Center
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