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

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Date:	Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:36:58 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com
Cc:	rostedt@...dmis.org, richm@...elvet.org.uk, 609371@...s.debian.org,
	ben@...adent.org.uk, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.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: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:35:25 -0500

> Steven, what were you trying to fix in the first place when you added the
> aligned(4) to the definition ? It might have just been that the _ftrace_events
> section needed to be aligned on at least 8 bytes in the linker scripts, but was
> only aligned on 4-bytes. Forcing the definition alignment down to 4 possibly
> fixed the problem you experienced on x86_64, but seems to be causing other
> problems.
> 
> I would recommend to:
> 
> - Keep the linker script _ftrace_events alignment as it is now (aligned on 32
>   bytes).
> - Remove the aligned(4) attributes from all struct ftrace_event_call
>   definitions.

Completely agreed.
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