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From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/2] ftrace porting of ia64
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:01:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1229608871.30177.41.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1229570238.28616.31.camel@sli10-desk.sh.intel.com>


On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 11:25 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > ftrace porting of IA64.
> > TBD:
> > 1. I don't how to add unwind info to the assemble code, so please
> > advise.
> > 2. The generic ftrace ring buffer code doesn't handle alignment well.
> > With the patch, kernel will report a lot of unalignment. This is still
> > under investigation.
> 
> hm, that's weird - i recently profiled 64-bit x86 for unaligned accesses 
> and there didnt seem to be many. In any case, feel free to fix any 
> unaligned structure fields by reordering them.

Will x86_64 break if something is aligned by 32 bits?

The records in the buffer use to be 64 bit aligned. They are now 32 bit
aligned. I wonder if we should make that alignment arch specific.

-- Steve



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-18 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-18  3:17 [RFC 1/2] ftrace porting of ia64 Shaohua Li
2008-12-18 10:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-18 14:01 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2008-12-18 14:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-18 15:31 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-12-19  9:03 ` Shaohua Li
2008-12-19  9:09 ` Ingo Molnar

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