linux-kernel - Re: FRV/ARM unaligned access question

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Date:	Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:35:17 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, Russell King <rmk@....linux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: FRV/ARM unaligned access question


Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com> wrote:

> Probably smaller as now the le values aren't being byteswapped anymore,
> only the native endianess can use the struct version.  Care to look at
> the kernel size with the following instead?

For some unknown reason, the data segment shrank by four bytes.  The text
segment stayed the same though:

	warthog>size vmlinux
	   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
	2207804   66584  150189 2424577  24ff01 vmlinux

I would guess that in that kernel almost nothing uses LE unalignment.

The kernel works, so feel free to add my Acked-by to the patch.

David
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