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From: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>,
	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, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] jump label: update for .39
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:57:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D791F31.6040100@caviumnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1299783236.15854.405.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>

On 03/10/2011 10:53 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 10:47 -0800, David Daney wrote:
>
>> The alignment requested by the assembler will have to satisfy *all* the
>> requested alignments, so manually forcing everything to .align 8 (or
>> .align 4 for 32-bit) should ensure that the linker doesn't put in any holes.
>
> I would agree with the assessment although, I don't know that it is
> documented anywhere that this is what happens. As the previous "bug"
> with the trace_events was solved by me adding .align(4) everywhere, I
> would think that .align(sizeof(long)) would work here too.
>
> It may be a good ideal to force this alignment, and not add wasted
> space. If anything, if this (hypothetical) bug appears, it will most
> likely show up as a crash on boot up. I'm not too concerned about it.
>

If the linker put in gratuitous holes, things like  __ex_table would 
break too.


David Daney

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-10 18:58 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 [this message]
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
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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