From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 18:27:13 +0000 Subject: Re: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64 Message-Id: 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 >>>>> On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 10:57:12 -0700, "David S. Miller" said: DaveM> On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 12:58:59 -0500 DaveM> "Van Maren, Kevin" wrote: >> Rate-limited unaligned loads in user space make a lot more sense, since >> they _may_ point out issues in the code. DaveM> That's what generates the bulk of the noise in people's ia64 DaveM> dmesg output. At the moment, there are two ways to control the unaligned message printing: - use the dmesg command to lower the printing threshold below KERN_WARNING ("dmesg -n4", IIRC) - use prctl --unalign=silent to turn off unaligned printing for a particular task and its children If these mechanisms are not sufficient, there is nothing to stop anyone from cooking up a patch. For my puposes, what's there works nicely so I myself have no plans to make changes in this area. --david