Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932198AbWCaSVW (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:21:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932200AbWCaSVW (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:21:22 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:9921 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932198AbWCaSVV (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:21:21 -0500 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:20:53 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Jes Sorensen Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, ak@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] avoid unaligned access when accessing poll stack Message-Id: <20060331102053.2a440f81.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 528 Lines: 12 Jes Sorensen wrote: > > [PATCH] Optimize select/poll by putting small data sets on the stack > resulted in the poll stack being 4-byte aligned on 64-bit > architectures, causing misaligned accesses to elements in the array. How come you noticed this but I did not? - 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/