Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932109AbVJIRFk (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Oct 2005 13:05:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932116AbVJIRFk (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Oct 2005 13:05:40 -0400 Received: from mail.servus.at ([193.170.194.20]:61962 "EHLO mail.servus.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932109AbVJIRFj (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Oct 2005 13:05:39 -0400 Message-ID: <43494E2D.4050902@oberhumer.com> Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 19:06:53 +0200 From: "Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer" Organization: oberhumer.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.4.1.centos4 (X11/20051007) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: Linus Torvalds , Daniel Jacobowitz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: fix stack alignment for signal handlers References: <43273CB3.7090200@oberhumer.com> <20050914154425.GM11338@wotan.suse.de> <43494B3F.5070303@oberhumer.com> <200510091857.11566.ak@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <200510091857.11566.ak@suse.de> X-no-Archive: yes X-Oberhumer-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy. Trust us. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1095 Lines: 37 Andi Kleen wrote: > On Sunday 09 October 2005 18:54, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote: > > >>Here is a somewhat simplified version of my previous patch with >>updated comments. >> >>Attached is also a new small user-space test program which does not >>depend on any special gcc features and should trigger the problem on all >>machines. > > > I already have a version of the patch in my queue, but it's not a strict > bugfix so it's only for after 2.6.14. I see, many thanks. Please note that your current version could waste 16-bytes for unneeded alignment, while my new version does not. Not a real problem, but still things like these should be done right. ~Markus > > -Andi > > ftp://ftp.firstfloor.org/pub/ak/x86_64/quilt-current/patches/sigframe-alignment > > -- Markus Oberhumer, , http://www.oberhumer.com/ - 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/