From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 046F76B0012 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:13:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:11:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20110615.181148.650483947691740732.davem@davemloft.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH] slob: push the min alignment to long long From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1308171355.15617.401.camel@calx> References: <1308169466.15617.378.camel@calx> <1308171355.15617.401.camel@calx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: mpm@selenic.com Cc: penberg@kernel.org, sebastian@breakpoint.cc, cl@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, netfilter@vger.kernel.org From: Matt Mackall 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? :-) -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org