From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-kernel@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc: scott@timesys.com, oliver@neukum.org, zaitcev@redhat.com,
greg@kroah.com, arjanv@redhat.com, jgarzik@redhat.com,
tburke@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stern@rowland.harvard.edu, david-b@pacbell.net
Subject: Re: drivers/block/ub.c
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:59:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040628135948.5f8dca8e.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040628205058.GB8502@one-eyed-alien.net>
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:50:58 -0700
Matthew Dharm <mdharm-kernel@one-eyed-alien.net> wrote:
> I guess, in the end, what this comes down to is the fact that we're all
> going to get bitten on the ass when we finally get to a platform where the
> default alignment is 64-bits, which would then (by default) add padding to
> the above structure.
No it would not, see the other email I just sent out. Even when Alpha's
could not address smaller-than-word quantities with load/store instructions,
it _DID NOT_ pad such elements in it's ABI defined structure layout rules.
It did word loads, and shift+mask'd out the elements it wanted as needed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-28 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-26 20:06 drivers/block/ub.c Pete Zaitcev
2004-06-26 20:12 ` drivers/block/ub.c Matthew Dharm
2004-06-27 2:08 ` drivers/block/ub.c Pete Zaitcev
2004-06-27 3:30 ` drivers/block/ub.c Matthew Dharm
2004-07-12 0:10 ` [usb-storage] drivers/block/ub.c Pat LaVarre
2004-06-26 20:35 ` drivers/block/ub.c Oliver Neukum
2004-06-26 21:41 ` drivers/block/ub.c David S. Miller
2004-06-26 21:56 ` drivers/block/ub.c Oliver Neukum
2004-06-26 22:07 ` drivers/block/ub.c David S. Miller
2004-06-26 22:36 ` drivers/block/ub.c Oliver Neukum
2004-06-26 23:20 ` drivers/block/ub.c David S. Miller
2004-06-27 4:31 ` drivers/block/ub.c Oliver Neukum
2004-06-27 6:34 ` drivers/block/ub.c David S. Miller
2004-06-27 10:42 ` drivers/block/ub.c Oliver Neukum
2004-06-27 21:26 ` drivers/block/ub.c David S. Miller
2004-06-28 14:15 ` drivers/block/ub.c Scott Wood
2004-06-28 20:25 ` drivers/block/ub.c David S. Miller
2004-06-28 20:48 ` drivers/block/ub.c Scott Wood
2004-06-28 20:58 ` drivers/block/ub.c David S. Miller
2004-06-28 20:50 ` drivers/block/ub.c Matthew Dharm
2004-06-28 20:59 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-06-28 21:01 ` drivers/block/ub.c Pete Zaitcev
2004-06-28 23:52 ` drivers/block/ub.c Matthew Dharm
2004-06-28 20:57 ` drivers/block/ub.c Oliver Neukum
2004-06-28 21:03 ` drivers/block/ub.c David S. Miller
2004-06-28 21:18 ` drivers/block/ub.c Scott Wood
2004-06-28 22:22 ` drivers/block/ub.c David S. Miller
2004-06-28 22:31 ` drivers/block/ub.c Scott Wood
2004-06-28 22:40 ` drivers/block/ub.c Roland Dreier
2004-06-29 1:54 ` drivers/block/ub.c Robert White
2004-06-29 2:15 ` drivers/block/ub.c David S. Miller
2004-06-29 2:49 ` drivers/block/ub.c Robert White
2004-06-29 18:31 ` drivers/block/ub.c Andy Isaacson
2004-07-05 10:01 ` drivers/block/ub.c Roman Zippel
2004-06-29 7:12 ` drivers/block/ub.c Vojtech Pavlik
2004-06-29 1:39 ` drivers/block/ub.c Robert White
2004-06-29 17:02 ` drivers/block/ub.c Kurt Garloff
2004-06-26 22:54 ` drivers/block/ub.c Andries Brouwer
2004-06-26 22:59 ` drivers/block/ub.c Oliver Neukum
2004-06-26 23:08 ` drivers/block/ub.c Andries Brouwer
2004-06-27 5:04 ` drivers/block/ub.c Oliver Neukum
2004-06-27 14:08 ` drivers/block/ub.c Andries Brouwer
2004-06-27 14:24 ` drivers/block/ub.c Oliver Neukum
2004-06-27 15:19 ` drivers/block/ub.c Alan Stern
2004-06-27 15:45 ` drivers/block/ub.c Andries Brouwer
2004-06-28 23:58 ` drivers/block/ub.c Jeff Garzik
2004-06-28 0:10 ` drivers/block/ub.c Pete Zaitcev
2004-06-28 16:01 ` drivers/block/ub.c Alan Stern
2004-06-27 15:23 ` drivers/block/ub.c Andries Brouwer
2004-06-27 16:11 ` drivers/block/ub.c Oliver Neukum
2004-06-26 22:46 ` drivers/block/ub.c Oliver Neukum
2004-06-27 3:52 ` drivers/block/ub.c Alan Stern
2004-06-27 4:05 ` drivers/block/ub.c Alan Stern
2004-06-27 5:02 ` drivers/block/ub.c Greg KH
2004-06-27 15:23 ` drivers/block/ub.c Alan Stern
2004-06-27 20:29 ` drivers/block/ub.c Pete Zaitcev
2004-06-27 21:03 ` drivers/block/ub.c Matthew Dharm
2004-06-28 15:40 ` drivers/block/ub.c Alan Stern
2004-06-28 16:42 ` drivers/block/ub.c Oliver Neukum
2004-06-28 19:50 ` drivers/block/ub.c Alan Stern
2004-06-27 5:35 ` drivers/block/ub.c Matthew Dharm
2004-06-27 15:28 ` drivers/block/ub.c Alan Stern
2004-06-27 22:56 ` drivers/block/ub.c David Brownell
2004-06-27 23:43 ` drivers/block/ub.c Pete Zaitcev
2004-06-28 15:05 ` drivers/block/ub.c David Brownell
2004-06-28 15:56 ` drivers/block/ub.c Alan Stern
2004-06-28 16:23 ` drivers/block/ub.c David Brownell
2004-06-28 16:46 ` drivers/block/ub.c Oliver Neukum
2004-06-28 17:13 ` drivers/block/ub.c David Brownell
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2004-06-27 23:57 ` drivers/block/ub.c Pete Zaitcev
2004-06-29 11:05 ` drivers/block/ub.c Jeff Garzik
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