kdump on ARM

[Bernd Walter]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 04:19:41PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 04:16:07PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 02:54:05PM +0000, Rui Paulo wrote:
> > > On 17 Feb 2010, at 14:18, Grzegorz Bernacki wrote:
> > > I wonder if this can't be made non arm conditional?
> 
> Ups - I'd just recovered from Mr. Sandman's work.
> So we all agree about.
> Nevertheless it should be verified if this is just a faulty struct
> definition.
> On the other hand I think it is not because someone else wrote it is
> a brokem on mips as well.

I'm really still sleeping - noone mentioned mips at all.

> > Either this struct is properly aligned or not.
> > So why should this be made conditional?
> > Non strict alignment architecturs also have problems with this, but
> > it is usualy just speed penalties.
> > There is one ARM sepcific struct missalignment problem.
> > In this case we usually add __packed macro to structure definition.
> > For most structures this usually means no change on other
> > archtitectures and we only declare the struct to forcibly be what the
> > programmer already expected.
> > Only a few programmers are aware that they expect something from
> > structures, which is not garantied.

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