linux-kernel - Re: Oops with DCACHE_WORD

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Message-ID: <4FA22C75.6010001@zytor.com>
Date:	Wed, 02 May 2012 23:57:57 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, npiggin@...il.com, jana@...ut.de,
	jlbec@...lplan.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Oops with DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS and ocfs2, autofs4

On 05/02/2012 11:54 PM, David Miller wrote:
>>
>> Can we do the trick of aligning the pointer and ignoring the start?
>> That would allow even architectures that don't have unaligned accesses
>> to work, too.
> 
> Doing that would flub the hash computation.

I guess the shifts would be to expensive?

	-hpa
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