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From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
To: Shawn Landden <shawnlandden@gmail.com>
Cc: "linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix unaligned memory accesses (Closes: #656955)
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 14:16:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120709181624.GU7159@shiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1341625062-13044-1-git-send-email-shawnlandden@gmail.com>

On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 07:37:42PM -0600, Shawn Landden wrote:
> From: Shawn Landen <shawnlandden@gmail.com>
> 
> Fix creation of volumes using mkfs.btrfs on armv5.

[ use memcpy instead of direct structure accesses ]

Thanks for the patch.  This should be a problem in the way gcc is run.
The kernel uses the same functions without memcpy, so there must be a
way to get gcc to turn the unaligned access into something arch safe.

-chris

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-09 18:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-07  1:37 [PATCH] fix unaligned memory accesses (Closes: #656955) Shawn Landden
2012-07-07 10:48 ` Alexander Block
2012-07-09 18:16 ` Chris Mason [this message]

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