netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] RDS: memory allocated must be align to 8

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Date:	Fri, 8 Apr 2016 13:55:17 -0700
From:	santosh shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	shamir.rabinovitch@...cle.com, rds-devel@....oracle.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] RDS: memory allocated must be align to 8

On 4/8/2016 1:10 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: santosh shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>
> Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 12:44:39 -0700
>
>> On 4/7/2016 4:57 AM, Shamir Rabinovitch wrote:
>>> Fix issue in 'rds_ib_cong_recv' when accessing unaligned memory
>>> allocated by 'rds_page_remainder_alloc' using uint64_t pointer.
>>>
>> Sorry I still didn't follow this change still. What exactly is the
>> problem.
>
> You can't stop the offset at non-8byte intervals, because the chunks
> being used in these arenas can have 64-bit values in it, which must be
> 8-byte aligned.
>
I see. Thanks for explaining it Dave.
Its fine to apply then.
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>

Regards,
Santosh