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On 9/8/2014 1:50 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
> Actual alignment is pretty irrelevant.  That's why all architectures
> which require alignment also have to implement misaligned traps ... this
> is a fundamental requirement of the networking code, for instance.

Can you clarify what you think the requirement is?  The tile architecture
doesn't support misaligned load/store in general, but we do support it for
userspace (using a nifty JIT approach with a direct-map hash table kept
in userspace), and also for get_user/put_user.  But that's it, and,
the networking subsystem works fine for us.

Occasionally we report bugs for driver code that doesn't use the
get_unaligned_xxx() macros and friends, and our fixes are generally taken
upstream.

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Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp.
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