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From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 RFC net-next] net/vxlan: Fix kernel unaligned access in
 __vxlan_find_mac
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 06:46:41 +0200
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On (07/17/15 16:07), Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-07-17 at 22:00 +0200, Sowmini Varadhan wrote:
> > __vxlan_find_mac invokes ether_addr_equal on the eth_addr field,
> > which triggers unaligned access messages, so rearrange vxlan_fdb
> > to avoid this in the most non-intrusive way.
> 
> What arch does this?

sparc.

BTW, I was also getting a lot of alignment errors from 
vxlan_xmit_skb (vxh comes out unaligned) for the IPv6 path.
I did not have time to investigate/fix this correctly- not sure
if this is specific to v6.

--Sowmini