Hi Greg, [snip]
> > > This is not needed in any of the older kernels, despite what the stable@ > > > line said, as it ends up taking a lot of memory up for all other arches. > > > That's why I only applied it to the one kernel version. I'm betting > > > that it will be eventually reverted when people notice it as well :) > > > > That very well might become the case but then we're back to the initial > > problem, > > right? So maybe some other more future-proof solution should be implemented? > > Possibly yes. > > > See initially we discussed simple explicit 8-byte alignment which won't > > change > > data layout for most of arches while fixing our issue on ARC but for some > > reason > > people were not happy with that proposal and that's how we ended-up with > > what we > > discuss here now. > > I'm not disagreeing that this is a valid solution for you, I wasn't part > of the original discussion, sorry. Just that this probably isn't > something that should be backported to older kernels at this point in > time. That's fine for now. Then if it ever gets reverted in Linux tree hopefully I'll be CCed and it will be enough time to come up with a better fix. -Alexey
