linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: atomic64_t should be 8 bytes aligned

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Date:	Fri, 3 Jul 2009 08:14:14 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	paulus@...ba.org, arnd@...db.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: atomic64_t should be 8 bytes aligned


* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > 
> > So we probably need an __attribute__((aligned(8)) on atomic64_t 
> > definition as well, since alignof(atomic64_t) is 4, not 8 (!!!)
> 
> Ack. Ingo, Peter, I'm hoping you're collecting these things?

Yeah, of course.

	Ingo
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