linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] misc: fix alignment warnings on ARM

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Message-ID: <20150620013805.GB29480@thunk.org>
Date:	Fri, 19 Jun 2015 21:38:05 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] misc: fix alignment warnings on ARM

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 04:40:51PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Some temporary char buffers allocated on the stack are not properly
> aligned when typecast to a structure containing __u32 or __u64 types,
> and this can cause alignment warnings on ARM and other alignment
> sensitive architectures, and potential slowdowns to do fixups.
> 
> Fix the buffer alignment to avoid such issues.
> 
> Addresses: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680090
> 
> Reported-by: Gordan Bobic <gordan.bobic@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>

Applied, thanks.

					- Ted
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