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Re: [patch] avoid unaligned access when accessing poll stack

Subject: Re: [patch] avoid unaligned access when accessing poll stack
From: Jes Sorensen
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:20:23 +0200
Newsgroups: linux.kernel
>>>>> "Andi" == Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> writes:

Andi> On Friday 31 March 2006 17:38, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Patch 70674f95c0a2ea694d5c39f4e514f538a09be36f [PATCH] Optimize
>> select/poll by putting small data sets on the stack resulted in the
>> poll stack being 4-byte aligned on 64-bit architectures, causing
>> misaligned accesses to elements in the array.
>> 
>> This patch fixes it by declaring the stack in terms of 'long'
>> instead of 'char'.

Andi> You should do that for poll too then.

I assume you mean select().

Updated patch attached.

Jes

Force alignment of poll and select stacks to long to avoid unaligned
access on 64 bit architectures.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@xxxxxxx>

---
 fs/select.c |    8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/fs/select.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/select.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/select.c
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@
        int ret, size, max_fdset;
        struct fdtable *fdt;
        /* Allocate small arguments on the stack to save memory and be faster */
-       char stack_fds[SELECT_STACK_ALLOC];
+       long stack_fds[SELECT_STACK_ALLOC/sizeof(long)];
 
        ret = -EINVAL;
        if (n < 0)
@@ -639,8 +639,10 @@
        struct poll_list *walk;
        struct fdtable *fdt;
        int max_fdset;
-       /* Allocate small arguments on the stack to save memory and be faster */
-       char stack_pps[POLL_STACK_ALLOC];
+       /* Allocate small arguments on the stack to save memory and be
+          faster - use long to make sure the buffer is aligned properly
+          on 64 bit archs to avoid unaligned access */
+       long stack_pps[POLL_STACK_ALLOC/sizeof(long)];
        struct poll_list *stack_pp = NULL;
 
        /* Do a sanity check on nfds ... */
-
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