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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mpm@selenic.com
Cc: penberg@kernel.org, sebastian@breakpoint.cc,
	cl@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slob: push the min alignment to long long
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:11:48 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110615.181148.650483947691740732.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1308171355.15617.401.camel@calx>

From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:55:55 -0500

> In general, I think the right thing is to require every arch to
> explicitly document its alignment requirements via defines in the kernel
> headers so that random hackers don't have to scour the internet for
> datasheets on obscure architectures they don't care about.

Blink... because the compiler doesn't provide a portable way to
do this, right? :-)

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-15 22:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-14 20:10 [PATCH] slob: push the min alignment to long long Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2011-06-14 20:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-06-14 21:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-06-15 20:06   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2011-06-16 16:48   ` Pekka Enberg
2011-06-22 23:41   ` David Rientjes
2011-06-23 14:36     ` Christoph Lameter
2011-06-23 20:24       ` David Rientjes
2011-06-14 22:05 ` Matt Mackall
2011-06-15 20:12   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2011-06-15 20:24     ` Matt Mackall
2011-06-15 20:40       ` Pekka Enberg
2011-06-15 20:55         ` Matt Mackall
2011-06-15 22:11           ` David Miller [this message]
2011-06-15 22:53             ` Matt Mackall
2011-06-16  6:59               ` Pekka Enberg
2011-06-16 15:23                 ` Matt Mackall
2011-06-16 15:28                   ` Pekka Enberg
2011-06-15 22:08     ` David Miller

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