Re: [PATCH 2.4] jffs2 aligment problems

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon Jun 07 2004 - 16:48:26 EST


On Monday 07 June 2004 23:29, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 22:56 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > So we did not care if it took ms + x Âs due to an alignement trap
>
> Indeed. But since many machines I care about can't fix up unaligned
> accesses I'm _more_ than happy to obey the original decree that I should
> put back the get_unaligned() calls; just ignoring the stated reasons.
> Let's not argue Linus out of it :)

I do not argue. I just stated why nobody took care of it.

Cite from old mail's:
> Yes. Enable the alignment abort handler. In later kernels, its a
> fundamental requirement that the alignment abort handler is enabled
> before you'll even get to see the jffs2 or MTD options.

>> Checking this before the unaligned access would be faster <SNIP>
> It's handled by the alignment abort handler already.

--
Thomas
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