From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jes Sorensen Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:38:22 +0000 Subject: [patch] avoid unaligned access when accessing poll stack Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Hi, Patch 70674f95c0a2ea694d5c39f4e514f538a09be36f [PATCH] Optimize select/poll by putting small data sets on the stack resulted in the poll stack being 4-byte aligned on 64-bit architectures, causing misaligned accesses to elements in the array. This patch fixes it by declaring the stack in terms of 'long' instead of 'char'. Cheers, Jes Force alignment of poll stack to long to avoid unaligned access on 64 bit architectures. Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen --- fs/select.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/fs/select.c =================================--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/select.c +++ linux-2.6/fs/select.c @@ -639,8 +639,10 @@ struct poll_list *walk; struct fdtable *fdt; int max_fdset; - /* Allocate small arguments on the stack to save memory and be faster */ - char stack_pps[POLL_STACK_ALLOC]; + /* Allocate small arguments on the stack to save memory and be + faster - use long to make sure the buffer is aligned properly + on 64 bit archs to avoid unaligned access */ + long stack_pps[POLL_STACK_ALLOC/sizeof(long)]; struct poll_list *stack_pp = NULL; /* Do a sanity check on nfds ... */