From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jes Sorensen Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:20:14 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch] option to quite unaligned trap warnings Message-Id: <43F605CE.8010708@sgi.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Luck, Tony wrote: > Jes> Hi, This patch is an attempt to find a good compromise to the > Jes> somewhat contentious issue of the unaligned usertrap warnings. > > >>I haven't seen any negative reactions to this one yet and it's been a >>week so far. Tony any chance you would apply it to your tree? > > > Yes, though I might trim the printk() message back a bit, it seems > a bit[1] over the top. How about just: > > Unaligned exception warnings have been disabled > echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap to re-enable I kinda added that deliberately to make it a strong point to the users that they really should consider fixing their apps. If we do a simple message like that they may not realize the cost of it. I can live with the simple message, but I think it would be good to swing the cluebat a bit ;-) Cheers, Jes