Re: Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod:Unknown relocation: 36

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 13:40 -0800, David Miller wrote:

> My concern is that if there is ever a u64 or similarly "long long"
> typed member in these tracing structures, it will not be aligned
> sufficiently to avoid unaligned access traps on 32-bit systems.

The structure that gets placed in this section is the ftrace_event_call.
It consists only of pointers, a struct list_head, a couple of "int", and
a struct trace_event, which consists of: a struct hlist_node, a struct
list_head, an int, and a pointer.

None of these are more than "long" and I don't foresee them needing a
long long type. I think assuming that a long is the largest item should
due.

We can add a comment next to these structures specifying this
dependency, and hopefully it would be updated if we ever do include a
long long in them.

-- Steve


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