Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262174AbTIWSVs (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 14:21:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262161AbTIWSVr (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 14:21:47 -0400 Received: from hermes.py.intel.com ([146.152.216.3]:16617 "EHLO hermes.py.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262141AbTIWSVp convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 14:21:45 -0400 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6487.1 Subject: RE: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64 Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:21:35 -0700 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64 Thread-Index: AcOB/BMzzNsMP/LRTN+4sSDTmxCzzgAAcnUA From: "Luck, Tony" To: "David S. Miller" , Cc: , , , , , , , , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Sep 2003 18:21:36.0303 (UTC) FILETIME=[861A73F0:01C381FF] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 847 Lines: 20 > As I understand it, you even do this stupid printk for user apps > as well, that makes it more than rediculious. I'd be surprised > if anyone can find any useful kernel messages on an ia64 system > in the dmesg output with all the unaligned access crap there. I don't think that it is "normal" for applications to do unaligned memory access. It means that: a) the programmer is playing fast and loose with types and/or casts. b) the end-user is going to be disappointed with the performance. Looking at a couple of ia64 build servers here I see zero unaligned access messages in the logs. -Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/