[patch 0/3] Fix alignment of custom sections made from structures (v3)

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

Hello,

Here is a patchset that fixes the Ftrace-induced crash experienced on sparc64
discussed in the following thread: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/1/16/2

The third patch changes the Tracepoints to use the more compact alignment scheme
proposed here, even though their alignment on 32-byte works fine. This third
patch is therefore not a fix per se.

The patchset is based on 2.6.37. Hopefully there are not too many things to
update for the current -git.

Changelog since v2: drop the "packed" attribute, because it caused unaligned 
acceses on sparc64 by dropping the padding between consecutive "int" and 
"pointer"/"long" fields.

Comments are welcome,

Mathieu

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Mathieu Desnoyers
Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com
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