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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>, Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>,
	linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: kernel oops due to unaligned access with lswi
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 16:07:10 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1068959230.4644.52.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16310.51046.819605.41542@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>


On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 11:40, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Olaf,
>
> > 	lswi 9,31,8
> > 	stswi 9,28,8
> >
> > s = r31. How can gcc be sure that s aligned?
>
> What machine is this?  I looked at the manuals for 750, 7450, POWER4
> and they all handle unaligned string ops in hardware.  The alignment
> handler doesn't handle string ops, I believe, although it could.  And
> which arch (ppc32 or ppc64)?

One of your old friends actually:

olaf> pmac 7200/90 with 601 cpu.

:)

Ben.


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-16  5:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-15 21:04 kernel oops due to unaligned access with lswi Olaf Hering
2003-11-15 22:24 ` Olaf Hering
2003-11-15 22:30   ` David Edelsohn
2003-11-15 22:37     ` Olaf Hering
2003-11-15 22:43     ` Olaf Hering
2003-11-15 22:59       ` David Edelsohn
2003-11-16 10:17         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-11-16 17:49           ` Kumar Gala
2003-11-16 22:19             ` Alan Modra
2003-11-16 22:45               ` Jon Masters
2003-11-17  0:50               ` Paul Mackerras
2003-11-17  7:55                 ` Olaf Hering
2003-11-16 23:12             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-11-16 23:31               ` David Edelsohn
2003-11-17  9:19                 ` Gabriel Paubert
2003-11-16 23:04           ` David Edelsohn
2003-11-17  0:40             ` Paul Mackerras
2003-11-19 21:51             ` linas
2003-11-19 22:06               ` Hollis Blanchard
2003-11-19 22:50                 ` linas
2003-11-16  0:40 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-11-16  1:45   ` Olaf Hering
2003-11-16 16:49     ` Olaf Hering
2003-11-16  5:07   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]

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