Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751740AbWJERb3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 13:31:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751739AbWJERb3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 13:31:29 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:56285 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751395AbWJERb3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 13:31:29 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: discuss@x86-64.org Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: Please pull x86-64 bug fixes Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 19:27:27 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200610051910.25418.ak@suse.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610051927.27255.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 750 Lines: 21 > Have you actually ever seen an alignment check in the kernel? No. It was me extrapolating from Marcus' report, but I apparently didn't read the specification well enough. > As far as I > know, the AC flag is only effective in user space, and anything else would > be in violation of the whole definition of the AC flag. The i486 manual > explicitly states that AC events are _only_ handled in ring3. > > So I think these both are (a) misleading and (b) wrong. Ok. Please drop them then. -Andi - 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/