Re: [PATCH] x86: atomic64_t should be 8 bytes aligned

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Jul 03 2009 - 02:14:36 EST



* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> >
> > So we probably need an __attribute__((aligned(8)) on atomic64_t
> > definition as well, since alignof(atomic64_t) is 4, not 8 (!!!)
>
> Ack. Ingo, Peter, I'm hoping you're collecting these things?

Yeah, of course.

Ingo
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