Re: [PATCH 08/10] ftrace: Align __mcount_loc sections

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Nov 07 2008 - 22:55:33 EST



On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> Impact: alignment option for recordmcount.pl script
>
> Align the __mcount_loc sections so that architectures with strict
> alignment requirements need not worry about performing unaligned
> accesses.
>
> This fixes an issue where I was seeing unaligned accesses, which are not
> supported on our architecture (the results of an unaligned access are
> undefined).
>
> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matthew.fleming@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>


Hmm, I have Matt as the Author in my git repository, but when I did the
git format-patch and sent this off via quilt, it removed him as the author
:-(

I may need to write a script to force the From line to be shown in the
output files.

Here's the top of that file in my quilt tree that was produced:

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