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Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 15:39:31 -0700
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: correctly align __log_buf
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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