On Sat, 8 May 2004, Jun Sun wrote:
> On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 09:18:22AM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 06:10:31PM -0700, Jun Sun wrote:
> >
> > > I got a bunch of segfaults which are due to HAS_LLSCD cpu operating
> > > on a semaphore which is aligned along 4-byte boundary instead of the
> > > desired 8-byte boundary.
> >
> > Dare to give a complete version number? I've dumped 2.4 on all my systems
> > months ago and never have seen this problem except with slab debugging
> > enabled - but that side effect of slab debugging is known since years.
> >
>
> Kernel is yesterday's CVS. gcc is 3.3.1. config is ddb5477. No
> additional patch. See below.
>
> In any case if you look at the uart code you should see there
> is a problem already. 'state' is allocated through kmalloc() which only
> gives 4-byte alignement. The only puzzling thing is that why this
> did not show up before. Maybe kmalloc() was giving 8-byte aligned block?
AFAIK, kmaloc() always[*] returns 8-byte (or higher, for archs that need it)
aligned blocks.
[*] But I did see reports of this being false if slab debugging was enabled.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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