linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/10] ftrace: Align __mcount

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0811072250200.1444@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Fri, 7 Nov 2008 22:55:22 -0500 (EST)
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Matt Fleming <matthew.fleming@...tec.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/10] ftrace: Align __mcount_loc sections


On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> Impact: alignment option for recordmcount.pl script
> 
> Align the __mcount_loc sections so that architectures with strict
> alignment requirements need not worry about performing unaligned
> accesses.
> 
> This fixes an issue where I was seeing unaligned accesses, which are not
> supported on our architecture (the results of an unaligned access are
> undefined).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matthew.fleming@...tec.com>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>


Hmm, I have Matt as the Author in my git repository, but when I did the 
git format-patch and sent this off via quilt, it removed him as the author 
:-(

I may need to write a script to force the From line to be shown in the 
output files.

Here's the top of that file in my quilt tree that was produced:

-------------
>From 5c681e0fbbcecae2f446a5cce2d3556a536f9719 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Fleming <matthew.fleming@...tec.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 13:26:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] ftrace: Align __mcount_loc sections

Impact: alignment option for recordmcount.pl script
--------------


Ingo, If you pull this from my git tree, it will keep the authorship 
correct.

Thanks,

-- Steve

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