Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755927AbZGBXyQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 19:54:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752794AbZGBXyD (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 19:54:03 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:58770 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752521AbZGBXyB (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 19:54:01 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:53:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Eric Dumazet cc: David Howells , mingo@elte.hu, akpm@linux-foundation.org, paulus@samba.org, arnd@arndb.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: atomic64_t should be 8 bytes aligned In-Reply-To: <4A4D2FDA.3000509@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <20090701144913.GA28172@elte.hu> <20090701164700.29780.15103.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <4A4D2239.5000602@gmail.com> <4A4D2FDA.3000509@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LFD 1184 2008-12-16) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 493 Lines: 15 On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > So we probably need an __attribute__((aligned(8)) on atomic64_t definition > as well, since alignof(atomic64_t) is 4, not 8 (!!!) Ack. Ingo, Peter, I'm hoping you're collecting these things? Linus -- 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/