From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: fix unaligned access in readdir
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 23:53:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080107225357.GA24361@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071226154857.GA3472@lst.de>
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 04:48:57PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This patch should fix the issue seen on Alpha with unaligned accesses
> in the new readdir code. By aligning each dirent to sizeof(u64) we'll
> avoid unaligned accesses. To make doubly sure we're not hitting
> problems also rearrange struct hack_dirent to avoid holes.
If anyone in Melbourne is getting back from Holidays it would be nice
if we could get this patch into 2.6.24-final still..
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-07 22:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-26 15:48 [PATCH] xfs: fix unaligned access in readdir Christoph Hellwig
2007-12-26 22:19 ` Dustin Marquess
2008-01-07 22:53 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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