Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754166AbZGCGOb (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jul 2009 02:14:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751890AbZGCGOX (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jul 2009 02:14:23 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:57652 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751743AbZGCGOW (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jul 2009 02:14:22 -0400 Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 08:14:14 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Eric Dumazet , David Howells , 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 Message-ID: <20090703061414.GA23990@elte.hu> References: <20090701144913.GA28172@elte.hu> <20090701164700.29780.15103.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <4A4D2239.5000602@gmail.com> <4A4D2FDA.3000509@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.5 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 578 Lines: 18 * Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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? Yeah, of course. Ingo -- 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/