From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>,
Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>,
peterz@infradead.org, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@elte.hu,
tglx@linutronix.de, andi@firstfloor.org, roland@redhat.com,
rth@redhat.com, masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com,
fweisbec@gmail.com, avi@redhat.com, davem@davemloft.net,
sam@ravnborg.org, michael@ellerman.id.au,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] jump label: update for .39
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:38:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110311003846.GA23548@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BLU0-SMTP39EE03AE86CF0F0E5C570596C80@phx.gbl>
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 04:22:14PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> You seem to be contradicting yourself here. I'm concerned about having
> "structures" of a size not power of two. Can we simply either
>
> - Add a padding element at the end
> or
> - use .align 4*sizeof(long) at the beginning
>
> to make sure the linker won't put any holes when it puts objects
> together ?
It may only be a technicality but but careful with .align. On some
architectures .align x will align to a multiple of x; on other
architectures to 2^x. Another reason to stick to C wherever possible.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-11 0:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-09 20:47 [PATCH 0/2] jump label: update for .39 Jason Baron
2011-03-09 20:47 ` [PATCH 1/2] jump label: introduce static_branch() interface Jason Baron
2011-03-10 20:54 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-10 20:56 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-11 2:05 ` Ralf Baechle
2011-03-11 2:15 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-10 21:01 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-10 21:18 ` Jason Baron
2011-03-11 2:02 ` Ralf Baechle
2011-03-09 20:47 ` [PATCH 2/2] dynamic debug: add jump label support Jason Baron
2011-03-10 3:36 ` [PATCH 0/2] jump label: update for .39 Steven Rostedt
2011-03-10 14:11 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-03-10 14:46 ` Jason Baron
[not found] ` <BLU0-SMTP690BB959832A97E002293396C80@phx.gbl>
2011-03-10 15:38 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-10 17:27 ` David Daney
2011-03-10 18:04 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-10 18:20 ` Jason Baron
2011-03-10 18:35 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-10 18:47 ` David Daney
2011-03-10 18:53 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-10 18:57 ` David Daney
2011-03-10 19:25 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-10 19:45 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-10 19:53 ` Jason Baron
2011-03-10 20:01 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-10 21:22 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
[not found] ` <BLU0-SMTP311155BEBE5F141636A6E596C80@phx.gbl>
2011-03-10 21:42 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-10 22:11 ` David Daney
2011-03-10 22:24 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-10 22:48 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
[not found] ` <BLU0-SMTP101D168109508CC1B82F0E496C80@phx.gbl>
2011-03-10 23:16 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-10 23:25 ` David Daney
2011-03-10 23:32 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-10 23:43 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-10 23:51 ` Thomas Gleixner
[not found] ` <BLU0-SMTP39EE03AE86CF0F0E5C570596C80@phx.gbl>
2011-03-11 0:38 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2011-03-11 1:19 ` Michael Ellerman
2011-03-11 2:39 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-03-10 21:39 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-03-10 21:11 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-03-10 21:14 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
[not found] ` <BLU0-SMTP2489AC44910467F37596A496C80@phx.gbl>
2011-03-10 21:34 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-03-10 22:02 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-03-10 16:41 ` Jan Glauber
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