From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
To: "'Kirill Korotaev'" <dev@openvz.org>, "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
       <linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org>, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>,
       "Alexey Kuznetsov" <alexey@openvz.org>,
       "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       <devel@openvz.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] IA64: alignment bug in ldscript
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:23:29 -0800
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Kirill Korotaev wrote on Monday, December 18, 2006 4:05 AM
> [IA64] bug in ldscript (mainstream)
> 
> Occasionally, in mainstream number of fsys entries is even.

Is it a typo on "fsys entries is even"?

If not, then this change log is misleading. It is the instruction
patch list of FSYS_RETURN that can potentially cause other data
structures to be out of alignment. And number of FSYS_RETURN call
site will not necessarily match number of fsys entry.


> In OpenVZ it is odd and we get misaligned kernel image,
> which does not boot.

Otherwise, the patch looks fine to me.
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