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

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Andrew Morton wrote:
Jes Sorensen <[email protected]> wrote:
  [PATCH] Optimize select/poll by putting small data sets on the stack
 resulted in the poll stack being 4-byte aligned on 64-bit
 architectures, causing misaligned accesses to elements in the array.

How come you noticed this but I did not?

Heh,

The ia64 kernel spits out nifty little messages moaning about this since
it goes to firmware emulation. They were all in the middle of the bootup
messages making them a bit harder to notice as well.

Cheers,
Jes
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