Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] Unified trace buffer

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> Also, I agree on the 4byte alignment, rather than the 8byte Steve seems
> to favour.

Pretty much all CPUs word align on a 8 byte bounder (until we get those 
128bit boxes running), but not all can word align on 4 bytes. I was hoping 
to make the buffer output somewhat the same across archs.

Otherwise, this is going to be quite a complex mess IMHO.

-- Steve

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