From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Mark Fortescue <mark@mtfhpc.demon.co.uk>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>,
William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: Sparc32: random invalid instruction occourances on sparc32 (sun4c)
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:46:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1183560364.29081.106.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0707041121290.31752@mtfhpc.demon.co.uk>
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 11:27 +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote:
> Another related point that may also need to be considered is that I think
> I am correct in saying that on ARM and on the 64bit platforms, sizeof
> (unsigned long long) is 16 (128bits).
No, it's always 64 bits.
> Should the RedZone words be specified as __u64 not the unsigned long long
> used or does the alignment need to be that of unsigned long long ?
You have to play silly buggers with printk formats (%lx vs. %llx) if you
do that. And you have to make a choice about using proper C types or the
Linux-specific nonsense. 'unsigned long long' is just easier all round.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-04 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-03 16:45 [1/2] 2.6.22-rc7: known regressions Michal Piotrowski
2007-07-03 17:29 ` Sparc32: random invalid instruction occourances on sparc32 (sun4c) Mark Fortescue
2007-07-03 18:57 ` [PATCH] " Mark Fortescue
2007-07-03 19:26 ` David Woodhouse
2007-07-03 21:25 ` Mark Fortescue
2007-07-03 21:56 ` David Woodhouse
2007-07-03 22:47 ` Mark Fortescue
2007-07-03 23:36 ` David Woodhouse
2007-07-04 3:27 ` Mark Fortescue
2007-07-04 3:33 ` David Woodhouse
2007-07-04 10:27 ` Mark Fortescue
2007-07-04 14:46 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2007-07-04 18:38 ` Mark Fortescue
2007-07-03 21:41 ` David Miller
2007-07-03 22:01 ` David Woodhouse
2007-07-03 17:50 ` [1/2] 2.6.22-rc7: known regressions Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-07-03 23:09 ` David Chinner
2007-07-05 0:20 ` David Woodhouse
2007-07-05 1:26 ` [PATCH 2.6.22 REGRESSION] Fix slab redzone alignment David Woodhouse
2007-07-05 1:42 ` [1/2] 2.6.22-rc7: known regressions David Woodhouse
2007-07-05 16:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-05 16:43 ` David Woodhouse
2007-07-05 18:46 ` David Woodhouse
2007-07-05 19:31 ` David Woodhouse
2007-07-05 19:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-05 21:03 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-07-06 22:50 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-07-07 0:33 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-07-07 1:05 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-07-07 1:28 ` David Woodhouse
2007-07-07 2:25 ` David Woodhouse
2007-07-07 18:28 ` Marcel Holtmann
2007-07-07 18:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-07 18:58 ` [PATCH] Fix use-after-free oops in Bluetooth HID David Woodhouse
2007-07-07 19:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-09 2:32 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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