linux-kernel - Re: Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi

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Date:	Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:39:44 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	richm@...elvet.org.uk
Cc:	609371@...s.debian.org, ben@...adent.org.uk,
	sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, fweisbec@...il.com, mingo@...hat.com
Subject: Re: Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod:
 Unknown relocation: 36

From: Richard Mortimer <richm@...elvet.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 14:17:49 +0000

> I'm wondering if gcc is just getting better at honouring the source
> code. The DEFINE_EVENT macros in include/trace/ftrace.h have a
> __aligned__(4) attribute in them. Maybe that should be 8 on sparc64
> systems.
> The aligned 4 seems to be unchanged since include/trace/ftrace.h was
> created in f42c85e74faa422cf0bc747ed808681145448f88 in April 2009.

That needs to be at least "8" on 64-bit systems.  Why is this aligned
directive there at all?
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