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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce compat_u64 and compat_s64 types
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:09:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5717.1181909357@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200706151355.57464.ak@suse.de>

Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:

> Why does it break them? It should just make them a little slower.

Not all CPUs deliver recoverable misalignment exceptions.  This is probably
particularly true of NOMMU-mode archs where the CPU designed may have taken
the view that if a data exception is delivered, then the whole system is kaput
anyway and must be restarted.

> The network code requires unaligned accesses to work anyways so if your
> architecture doesn't support them it is already remotely crashable.

I thought we'd fixed all that.

David

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-15 12:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200706150159.l5F1xNgM000459@hera.kernel.org>
2007-06-15  8:44 ` drm: fix radeon setparam on 32/64 bit systems David Woodhouse
2007-06-15  8:58   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-15  9:28     ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-15  9:31       ` [PATCH] Introduce compat_u64 and compat_s64 types Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-15  9:55         ` David Miller
2007-06-15 11:55         ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-15 12:00           ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-15 12:38             ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-15 12:03           ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-15 12:40             ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-15 12:47               ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-15 13:19               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-15 12:09           ` David Howells [this message]
2007-06-15 12:43             ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-15 12:54               ` Alan Cox
2007-06-15 12:54                 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-15 13:15                   ` Alan Cox
2007-06-15 13:27                     ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-15 13:32                       ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-15 20:50                   ` Robin Getz
2007-06-15 21:22                     ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-16  8:31                       ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-15 13:00                 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-15 12:11         ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-06-15 12:38           ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-15 12:42           ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-15 13:45             ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-06-15 13:52               ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-15 23:54               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-15 13:16         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-16  9:38         ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-16 10:26           ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-16 11:21             ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-16 11:34               ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-16 13:56                 ` Matthew Wilcox

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