From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 18:47:44 +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 11:27:13 -0700 David Mosberger wrote: > - use the dmesg command to lower the printing threshold below KERN_WARNING > ("dmesg -n4", IIRC) Not terribly useful if all the unaligned messages made the one I'm interested in get kicked out of the logs. > - use prctl --unalign=silent to turn off unaligned printing for a > particular task and its children What about for the kernel? No other port is so obstinate about printing out unaligned kernel access messages, why does ia64 have to be so different? Unaligned accesses are not only perfectly fine in the kernel, they are in fact expected in certain circumstances.