Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] hung_task: fix warnings caused by unaligned lock pointers

From: Finn Thain

Date: Wed Sep 10 2025 - 04:02:37 EST



On Wed, 10 Sep 2025, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> On Sep 10 2025, Finn Thain wrote:
>
> > Linux is probably the only non-trivial program that could be feasibly
> > rebuilt with -malign-int without ill effect (i.e. without breaking
> > userland)
>
> No, you can't. It would change the layout of basic user-level
> structures, breaking the syscall ABI.
>

So you'd have to patch the uapi headers at the same time. I think that's
"feasible", no?