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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Byron Bradley <byron.bbradley@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS Fails Quality Assurance Tests on ARM
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:36:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46D8277E.3000402@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fb8s9c$t02$1@sea.gmane.org>

Byron Bradley wrote:

> esandeen in #xfs pointed me towards this bug,
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=414932 , and suggested
> that I compare the size and offset of stucts between x86 and ARM. After
> modifying over 40 structs to give them the same offsets as x86 the problem
> is still present. I have already tried the patch by Greg Ungerer from 2004
> but again this didn't change anything. I also tried compiling the kernel
> and userspace tools with an 8-bit structure size boundary but it made no
> difference.
> 
> Further details of my attempts are at
> http://www.linkstationwiki.net/index.php/Buffalo_ARM9_Kernel_Port#XFS_Arm_Issues
> . I will keep this up to date until we find a solution.

Can you put information up there about the structure alignment problems
you found, and the patch you tried?

-Eric

> Anybody got any ideas of how we fix this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 

      reply	other threads:[~2007-08-31 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-31 10:58 XFS Fails Quality Assurance Tests on ARM Byron Bradley
2007-08-31 14:36 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]

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