Andi Kleen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Why does it break them? It should just make them a little slower.
Not all CPUs deliver recoverable misalignment exceptions. This is probably
particularly true of NOMMU-mode archs where the CPU designed may have taken
the view that if a data exception is delivered, then the whole system is kaput
anyway and must be restarted.
> The network code requires unaligned accesses to work anyways so if your
> architecture doesn't support them it is already remotely crashable.
I thought we'd fixed all that.
David
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