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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] [GIT PULL][v2.6.38] tracing: fix unaligned event arrays
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:59:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110126205903.GC14361@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1296068107.10144.71.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>


* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 07:47 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> > > Mathieu Desnoyers (3):
> > >       Introduce __u64_aligned and U64_ALIGN() for structure alignment in custom sections
> > >       tracing: Fix sparc64 alignment crash with __u64_aligned/U64_ALIGN()
> > >       tracepoints: Use __u64_aligned/U64_ALIGN()
> > > 
> 
> > Pulled, thanks a lot Steve!
> > 
> > 	Ingo
> 
> 
> Hi Ingo,
> 
> We (well Peter really) just discovered that this can cause alignment
> issues with gcc 4.4.4 and 4.4.5 (I unfortunately only tested it with gcc
> 4.5.1). We are currently looking into fixing it.
> 
> Letting you know so that you don't push this off to Linus ;-)

Well, i found and reported that 'perf stat -e irq:irq_handler_entry -a sleep 1' 
crash to Peter (i first thought it's due to his patch) so yes i know about it :-)

Thanks,

	Ingo

      reply	other threads:[~2011-01-26 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-26  4:04 Steven Rostedt
2011-01-26  4:05 ` [PATCH 1/3] Introduce __u64_aligned and U64_ALIGN() for structure alignment in custom sections Steven Rostedt
2011-01-26  4:05 ` [PATCH 2/3] tracing: Fix sparc64 alignment crash with __u64_aligned/U64_ALIGN() Steven Rostedt
2011-01-26  4:05 ` [PATCH 3/3] tracepoints: Use __u64_aligned/U64_ALIGN() Steven Rostedt
2011-01-27 18:19   ` Jiri Olsa
2011-01-27 18:22     ` Steven Rostedt
2011-01-27 19:09       ` Ingo Molnar
2011-01-27 19:11         ` Steven Rostedt
2011-01-26  6:47 ` [PATCH 0/3] [GIT PULL][v2.6.38] tracing: fix unaligned event arrays Ingo Molnar
2011-01-26 18:55   ` Steven Rostedt
2011-01-26 20:59     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]

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