Re: [patch] avoid unaligned access when accessing poll stack

[OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>]

Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:

> On Friday 31 March 2006 18:37, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
>> Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> writes:
>> 
>> >   	struct poll_list *walk;
>> >  	struct fdtable *fdt;
>> >  	int max_fdset;
>> > -	/* Allocate small arguments on the stack to save memory and be faster */
>> > -	char stack_pps[POLL_STACK_ALLOC];
>> > +	/* Allocate small arguments on the stack to save memory and be 
>> > +	   faster - use long to make sure the buffer is aligned properly
>> > +	   on 64 bit archs to avoid unaligned access */
>> > +	long stack_pps[POLL_STACK_ALLOC/sizeof(long)];
>> >  	struct poll_list *stack_pp = NULL;
>> 
>> struct poll_list stack_pps[POLL_STACK_ALLOC / sizeof(struct poll_list)];
>> 
>> is more readable, and probably gcc align it rightly?
>
> Yes, but it would be wrong

OK. So how about this?

	char stack_pps[POLL_STACK_ALLOC]
        	__attribute__((aligned (sizeof(struct poll_list))));
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
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