On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:26:42AM -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:22:18PM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote: > > I agree. The kernel is expected to emulate/handle unaligned loads/stores. > > > > I thought we had all that misaligned access handlers working years ago and > > somewhere probably have a user space program to test it. Oh...ldd won't be > > user space since we don't have a PA2.0 64-bit user space. LDD support > > can't be as well tested. > > > > On that note, can you try a 32-bit kernel? (SMP maybe) > > > > We really shouldn't be fixing up unaligned access in the kernel, since > we can just fix the code... If ipv6 is causing them, there must be some > missing define that's getting defaulted to something un-padded, > otherwise sparc wouldn't work at all (it definitely does /not/ fix > unalignd accesses, period.) I agree but thought davem refused patches to use get/put_unaligned macros in networking code. Searching for "davem ulog put_unaligned" shows him accepting such patches. So this is clearly the right path to pursue. thanks, grant -- 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
