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

Subject: Re: [patch] avoid unaligned access when accessing poll stack
From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:00:51 +0200
Newsgroups: linux.kernel
On Friday 31 March 2006 18:37, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> 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?

Yes, but it would be wrong

-Andi

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