From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org,
Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: correctly align __log_buf
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 15:39:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120510223931.GA30257@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1336688073-10664-1-git-send-email-swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 04:14:33PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> From: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
>
> __log_buf must be aligned, because a 64-bit value is written directly
> to it as part of struct log. Alignment of the log entries is typically
> handled by log_store(), but this only triggers for subsequent entries,
> not the very first (or wrapped) entries.
Thanks for tracking this down and fixing it, much appreciated. I've
applied your patch now.
greg k-h
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2012-05-10 22:14 [PATCH] printk: correctly align __log_buf Stephen Warren
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