Re: [PATCH 02/13] jump label v9: base patch

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Wed Jun 09 2010 - 18:36:59 EST


On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 05:38:57PM -0400, Jason Baron wrote:
> +#define JUMP_TABLE() \
> + . = ALIGN(64); \
> + VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start___jump_table) = .; \
> + *(__jump_table) \
> + VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop___jump_table) = .; \
> +



Why does it need to be aligned to 64?

Thanks.

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