Re: [RESEND PATCH] sysctl: Enable IA64 "ignore-unaligned-usertrap" tobe used cross-arch

From: Tony Luck
Date: Tue Jan 08 2013 - 18:43:21 EST


On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Vineet Gupta
<Vineet.Gupta1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> verbosw warnings on unaligned access emaultion.
"verbose", "emulation"

> While the exact menchaincs (ignore/shout) are still arch specific, we
"mechanics"

> +config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_NO_WARN
> + bool
> + help
> + Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
> + Allows arch to define/use @no_unaligned_warning to possbly warn about
"possibly"
> + unaligned access emulation going on under the hood.
> + see arch/ia64/kernel/unaligned.c for reference

It doesn't seem right to point users at an ia64 specific file now
that you are making this available to all arches.

-Tony
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