From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce compat_u64 and compat_s64 types
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:43:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200706151443.13511.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5717.1181909357@redhat.com>
On Friday 15 une 2007 14:09, David Howells wrote:
> Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> > Why does it break them? It should just make them a little slower.
>
> Not all CPUs deliver recoverable misalignment exceptions.
These CPUs are too broken to run Linux then.
> > The network code requires unaligned accesses to work anyways so if your
> > architecture doesn't support them it is already remotely crashable.
>
> I thought we'd fixed all that.
Did you audit the complete network stack?
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-15 12:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200706150159.l5F1xNgM000459@hera.kernel.org>
2007-06-15 8:44 ` drm: fix radeon setparam on 32/64 bit systems David Woodhouse
2007-06-15 8:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-15 9:28 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-15 9:31 ` [PATCH] Introduce compat_u64 and compat_s64 types Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-15 9:55 ` David Miller
2007-06-15 11:55 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-15 12:00 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-15 12:38 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-15 12:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-15 12:40 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-15 12:47 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-15 13:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-15 12:09 ` David Howells
2007-06-15 12:43 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-06-15 12:54 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-15 12:54 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-15 13:15 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-15 13:27 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-15 13:32 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-15 20:50 ` Robin Getz
2007-06-15 21:22 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-16 8:31 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-15 13:00 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-15 12:11 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-06-15 12:38 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-15 12:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-15 13:45 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-06-15 13:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-15 23:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-15 13:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-16 9:38 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-16 10:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-16 11:21 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-16 11:34 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-16 13:56 ` Matthew Wilcox
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