Re: v4.16+ seeing many unaligned access in dequeue_task_fair() on IA64
From: Luck, Tony
Date: Wed Apr 04 2018 - 12:39:04 EST
On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 09:25:13AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Right, I remember being careful with that. Which again brings me to the
> RANDSTRUCT thing, which will mess that up.
No RANDSTRUCT config options set for my build.
> Does the below cure things? It makes absolutely no difference for my
> x86_64-defconfig build, but it puts more explicit alignment constraints
> on things.
Yes. That fixes it. No unaligned traps with this patch applied.
Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
Thanks
-Tony