On Mon, 2016-04-18 at 09:39 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > Possibly. We have never gone that route. The obvious problems is > that > > I am not sure our alignment is known before boot. > > > Seems scary. I always thought that the alignment associated with > ____cacheline_aligned would be the maximum possible for a given > build/architecture. If not, what is the value of having > ____cacheline_aligned in the first place ? I thought it was for performance to prevent cache bouncing. I honestly don't know. You'd have to ask a specific question on LKML. Sorry Oliver -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-watchdog" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
