Re: Random scheduler/unaligned accesses crashes with perf lockevents on sparc 64

From: David Miller
Date: Tue Apr 06 2010 - 17:17:53 EST


From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:15:58 -0400

> On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 10:46 -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> Just fix the CPP test to handle 32-bit platforms with slow
>> mis-alignment handling, everything else seems to be working properly
>> after I fixed the NMI issues on sparc64.
>
> A little more work will need to be done since on 32bit, the page headers
> are 12 bytes, not 16, so we start off without being aligned 8bytes. But
> that too is fixable.

Oh yeah the buffer_data_page, good point.
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