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

Subject: Re: [patch] avoid unaligned access when accessing poll stack
From: OGAWA Hirofumi
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:40:14 +0200
Newsgroups: linux.kernel
Jes Sorensen <jes@xxxxxxx> writes:

>       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;

struct poll_list stack_pps[POLL_STACK_ALLOC / sizeof(struct poll_list)];

is more readable, and probably gcc align it rightly?
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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