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

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Message-ID: <20110201100305.GF9874@axis.com>
Date:	Tue, 1 Feb 2011 11:03:05 +0100
From:	Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@...s.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	"richm@...elvet.org.uk" <richm@...elvet.org.uk>,
	"609371@...s.debian.org" <609371@...s.debian.org>,
	"ben@...adent.org.uk" <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	"sparclinux@...r.kernel.org" <sparclinux@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"rostedt@...dmis.org" <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	"fweisbec@...il.com" <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	"mingo@...hat.com" <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"jeffm@...e.com" <jeffm@...e.com>
Subject: Re: Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod:
	Unknown relocation: 36

On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 06:11:16AM +0100, David Miller wrote:
> Jesper, could you please review this?

Looks good!

Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@...s.com>

> --------------------
> klist: Fix object alignment on 64-bit.
> 
> Commit c0e69a5bbc6fc74184aa043aadb9a53bc58f953b ("klist.c: bit 0 in
> pointer can't be used as flag") intended to make sure that all klist
> objects were at least pointer size aligned, but used the constant "4"
> which only works on 32-bit.
> 
> Use "sizeof(void *)" which is correct in all cases.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/klist.h b/include/linux/klist.h
> index e91a4e5..a370ce5 100644
> --- a/include/linux/klist.h
> +++ b/include/linux/klist.h
> @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ struct klist {
>  	struct list_head	k_list;
>  	void			(*get)(struct klist_node *);
>  	void			(*put)(struct klist_node *);
> -} __attribute__ ((aligned (4)));
> +} __attribute__ ((aligned (sizeof(void *))));
>  
>  #define KLIST_INIT(_name, _get, _put)					\
>  	{ .k_lock	= __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(_name.k_lock),		\
/^JN - Jesper Nilsson
-- 
               Jesper Nilsson -- jesper.nilsson@...s.com
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