On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 3:00 AM, Serban Constantinescu <[email protected]> wrote: > The Android userspace aligns the data written to the binder buffers to > 4bytes. Thus for 32bit platforms or 64bit platforms running an 32bit > Android userspace we can have a buffer looking like this: > > platform buffer(binder_cmd pointer) size > 32/32 32b 32b 8B > 64/32 32b 64b 12B > 64/64 32b 64b 12B > > Thus the kernel needs to check that the buffer size is aligned to 4bytes > not to (void *) that will be 8bytes on 64bit machines. > > The change does not affect existing 32bit ABI. >
Do we not want the pointers to be 8 byte aligned on 64bit platforms? -- Arve Hjønnevåg -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
