linux-kernel - Re: XFS Fails Quality Assurance Tests on ARM

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Date:	Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:54:18 +0000
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, byron.bbradley@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: XFS Fails Quality Assurance Tests on ARM

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 12:47:35AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> There was a patch floating around to "fix" it but it's not on-disk
> compatible w/ x86 & friends, it just makes things consistent for arm.  I
> think packing some of these structures would take care of it, but this
> problem could use some attention & testing I think, it's been floating
> around a long time.

Do you have a pointer to that patch?  Once the unaliged fields are
identified simply using get_unaligned on them should fix this issue.

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