From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Generic compat_sys_sysinfo
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 21:00:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061125040047.GG14076@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061125014313.GD11643@athena.road.mcmartin.ca>
On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 08:43:13PM -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> Some architectures were missing the u16 pad, however, I'm going to
> guess that a u16 is aligned on a u32 boundary and thus the padding is
> implied there...
It's more that a u32 gets aligned to a u32 boundary rather than a u16.
This is true except for m68k, which doesn't have compat.
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
Subject: [parisc-linux] Re: [PATCH] Generic compat_sys_sysinfo
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 21:00:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061125040047.GG14076@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061125014313.GD11643@athena.road.mcmartin.ca>
On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 08:43:13PM -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> Some architectures were missing the u16 pad, however, I'm going to
> guess that a u16 is aligned on a u32 boundary and thus the padding is
> implied there...
It's more that a u32 gets aligned to a u32 boundary rather than a u16.
This is true except for m68k, which doesn't have compat.
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-25 1:43 [PATCH] Generic compat_sys_sysinfo Kyle McMartin
2006-11-25 1:43 ` [parisc-linux] " Kyle McMartin
2006-11-25 4:00 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2006-11-25 4:00 ` [parisc-linux] " Matthew Wilcox
2006-11-25 4:02 ` David Miller
2006-11-25 13:28 ` Arnd Bergmann
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