Re: [PATCH] x86: atomic64_t should be 8 bytes aligned

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Jul 02 2009 - 19:54:21 EST




On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
> So we probably need an __attribute__((aligned(8)) on atomic64_t definition
> as well, since alignof(atomic64_t) is 4, not 8 (!!!)

Ack. Ingo, Peter, I'm hoping you're collecting these things?

Linus
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