From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753561Ab1AZSzM (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:55:12 -0500 Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.124]:54640 "EHLO hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751728Ab1AZSzK (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:55:10 -0500 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=UQuFHoD2CPQ248x8AXEbKhr4z9AaDqApxmEl3BhfZ64= c=1 sm=0 a=nczvMn_Z4IEA:10 a=Q9fys5e9bTEA:10 a=OPBmh+XkhLl+Enan7BmTLg==:17 a=2EbY2RAQfYB8fyh7Oh4A:9 a=LL3eiu7QgPDvTTHPuQLFdZSHV9EA:4 a=PUjeQqilurYA:10 a=OPBmh+XkhLl+Enan7BmTLg==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 67.242.120.143 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] [GIT PULL][v2.6.38] tracing: fix unaligned event arrays From: Steven Rostedt To: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Frederic Weisbecker , David Miller , Mathieu Desnoyers , Peter Zijlstra In-Reply-To: <20110126064723.GA15752@elte.hu> References: <20110126040459.289776311@goodmis.org> <20110126064723.GA15752@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:55:07 -0500 Message-ID: <1296068107.10144.71.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 07:47 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Mathieu Desnoyers (3): > > Introduce __u64_aligned and U64_ALIGN() for structure alignment in custom sections > > tracing: Fix sparc64 alignment crash with __u64_aligned/U64_ALIGN() > > tracepoints: Use __u64_aligned/U64_ALIGN() > > > Pulled, thanks a lot Steve! > > Ingo Hi Ingo, We (well Peter really) just discovered that this can cause alignment issues with gcc 4.4.4 and 4.4.5 (I unfortunately only tested it with gcc 4.5.1). We are currently looking into fixing it. Letting you know so that you don't push this off to Linus ;-) -- Steve