On Sun, Feb 04, 2001, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Hen, Shmulik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Actually yes. We were warned that on IA64 architecture the system will halt
> > when accessing any type of variable via a pointer if the pointer does not
> > contain an aligned address matching that type. Until now we were using a
>
> That will need to be fixed with a handler anyways, the network stack requires
> unaligned accesses. If the IA64 port doesn't handle that it it's buggy and
> trivially remotely crashable.
That ia64 port now supports unaligned accesses in kernel mode. (via the
latest patch)
It was more a debugging aid in the beginning than inability to do.
> Of course it'll always be much faster to use aligned accesses that do not
> need an exception.
Absolutely.
JE
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