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

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0907021653030.3210@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:53:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
cc:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, mingo@...e.hu,
	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



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?

		Linus
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