From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, manfred@colorfullife.com, davej@redhat.com,
wli@holomorphy.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dentry bloat.
Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 11:19:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040508111922.02e2c2ec.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0405081019000.3271@ppc970.osdl.org>
On Sat, 8 May 2004 10:28:29 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> > + unsigned short len;
> > +} __attribute__((packed));
...
> I think you just made
> "name" be unaligned, which can cause serious problems. Because I think
> "packed" _also_ means that it doesn't honor the alignment of the thing
> when laying it out in structures.
That's correct, alignment concerns are thrown out the door once
you specify packed to the compiler.
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[not found] ` <20040506150944.126bb409.akpm@osdl.org>
[not found] ` <409B1511.6010500@colorfullife.com>
2004-05-08 8:23 ` dentry bloat Andrew Morton
2004-05-08 9:23 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-08 10:11 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-08 10:12 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-08 10:28 ` viro
2004-05-08 10:41 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-08 10:52 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-08 10:31 ` Manfred Spraul
2004-05-08 17:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-08 18:19 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-05-08 19:01 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-08 19:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-08 19:27 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-08 19:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-08 20:42 ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-05-08 20:55 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-08 21:19 ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-05-09 0:10 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-09 2:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-09 3:12 ` David S. Miller
2004-05-09 3:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-09 21:03 ` Matt Mackall
2004-05-10 8:27 ` Helge Hafting
2004-05-10 8:32 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-10 9:46 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-10 14:54 ` Matt Mackall
2004-05-10 16:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-05-10 18:34 ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-05-09 4:12 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-09 4:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-09 4:36 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-09 5:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-09 7:36 ` Rodolfo Guluarte Hale
2004-05-09 9:10 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2004-05-09 9:23 ` viro
2004-05-09 15:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-09 18:11 ` Matt Mackall
2004-05-09 22:08 ` Francois Romieu
2004-05-09 23:51 ` Paul Jackson
2004-05-10 7:17 ` Florian Weimer
2004-05-10 14:12 ` Rik van Riel
2004-05-09 4:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-09 7:28 ` Manfred Spraul
2004-05-09 15:33 ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-05-09 22:17 ` viro
2004-05-09 22:27 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-11 5:26 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-05-10 18:39 ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-05-11 5:17 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-05-08 20:13 ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-10-06 12:58 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-05-11 20:22 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-14 10:33 ` Raghavan
2004-05-14 10:50 ` Paul Jackson
2004-05-14 11:04 ` Jens Axboe
2004-05-14 11:14 ` Paul Jackson
2004-05-14 11:24 ` Jens Axboe
2004-05-14 11:30 ` Paul Jackson
2004-05-14 11:24 ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-05-14 11:18 ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-05-14 14:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-08 21:00 ` Dipankar Sarma
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