On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 07:13:37AM +0200, Helge Deller wrote: > I think this patch is wrong, although it is theoretically correct. > > IIRC, gcc on hppa is not able to provide an alignment >= 8k, which is > why we have done the 16k alignment inside the linker script. > So, I think this change will prevent the parisc kernel to boot up. > Needs testing. > I think you're confusing this with the 8-byte maximum alignment from kmalloc and on-stack that prevents us from just using a 16-byte aligned word as a lock on pa1.1? The patch I trimmed from this mail looks correct to me. regards, Kyle -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
