netdev - Re: sparc64 verifier failures..

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Message-Id: <20171220.111757.1283209968433258308.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 20 Dec 2017 11:17:57 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     daniel@...earbox.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, alexei.starovoitov@...il.com
Subject: Re: sparc64 verifier failures..

From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 14:05:36 +0100

> On 12/19/2017 09:36 PM, David Miller wrote:
>> 
>> I'm getting about 100 verifier failures on sparc64.
>> 
>> The vast majority of them seem to be due to misaligned packet
>> accesses.  Here is a sample of some of the failures.
> 
> Thanks, I'll check it next days. It would probably make sense to have
> a --strict-align mode for test_verifier that enables it on all tests
> unconditionally so selftests suite would always run in both modes (at
> least on archs that don't have this restriction).

Indeed, and for some reason I thought we were already doing this.