On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:04:45PM +0200, Michał Masłowski wrote:
> > The webkit (1.4.0) people use their own allocator for these objects; it 
> > says to
> > align to 8bytes, but it might be broken. More weirdly, the same member is
> > accessed in the TimerBase *constructor*, but nothing happened constructing.
> 
> I believe the kernel code for emulating unaligned accesses is not used,
> it's easy to fix programs allocating unaligned memory so I wouldn't
> consider it useful.  And it certainly won't fix other problems than
> SIGBUSes.

It's used *a lot*. It happens the same in ARM. In general, lots of code is full
of unaligned accesses fixed realtime by the kernel. Mount debugfs, and check
/sys/kerne/debug/mips/unaligned_instructions to see the counter grow! :)
echo 2 to unaligned_action, and check your dmesg for a full report of everyone.
echo 1, and see SIGBUS everywhere.

That's the *easy* way to fix *all* sigbuses. But the Coprocessor load/store are
just not implemented. :)

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