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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, npiggin@gmail.com, jana@saout.de,
	jlbec@evilplan.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Oops with DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS and ocfs2, autofs4
Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 23:57:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FA22C75.6010001@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120503.025427.1277785208536786257.davem@davemloft.net>

On 05/02/2012 11:54 PM, David Miller wrote:
>>
>> Can we do the trick of aligning the pointer and ignoring the start?
>> That would allow even architectures that don't have unaligned accesses
>> to work, too.
> 
> Doing that would flub the hash computation.

I guess the shifts would be to expensive?

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-03  6:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-30 12:27 Oops with DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS and ocfs2, autofs4 Jana Saout
2012-05-01 11:00 ` Joel Becker
2012-05-01 12:28   ` Jana Saout
2012-05-03  5:02     ` Nick Piggin
2012-05-03  5:57       ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-03  5:57         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-03  6:23         ` Nick Piggin
2012-05-03  6:26           ` Nick Piggin
2012-05-03  6:38         ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-03  6:40           ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-03  6:54           ` David Miller
2012-05-03  6:57             ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-05-03  7:02               ` David Miller
2012-05-03  6:47         ` Al Viro
2012-05-03 16:15           ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-03 17:30             ` Al Viro
2012-05-03 17:30             ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-03 18:13               ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-03 18:23                 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-03 18:27                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-03 18:28                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-03 18:48                     ` David Miller
2012-05-03 21:23                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-03 19:06                     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-03 20:30                   ` Jana Saout
2012-05-03 21:01                     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-03 21:03                     ` Jana Saout
2012-05-03 21:20                       ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-03 21:47                         ` Jana Saout
2012-05-04 11:21                         ` Jana Saout
2012-05-03  8:01         ` Jana Saout

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