From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: memtest: fix compile warning
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:30:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A311521.7000607@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0906111512400.3372@localhost.localdomain>
Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>
> But aside of that this code is confusing.
>
> start_phys_aligned = ALIGN(start_phys, incr);
>
> Why do we have to fiddle with the alignment. Are you really seing e820
> entries which are not 8 byte aligned ?
>
I have personally seen those on real systems.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-11 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-11 1:27 linux-next: origin tree build warning Stephen Rothwell
2009-06-11 10:29 ` [PATCH] x86: memtest: fix compile warning Andreas Herrmann
2009-06-11 14:21 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-06-11 14:30 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-06-11 15:26 ` Andreas Herrmann
2009-06-12 13:11 ` Andreas Herrmann
2009-06-11 17:19 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-06-11 21:05 ` Thomas Gleixner
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