Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Introduce compat_u64 and compat_s64 types | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Sat, 16 Jun 2007 09:31:41 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 23:22 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > For the architecture we use (Blackfin), it does not support unaligned > > accesses, and we purposely never put in the trap/fixup code - we trap, and > > printk("fix your source"); > > For the kernel you should fix up too in addition to the printk. Otherwise > you risk a ping of death in the field with some more obscure protocol. > Also the printk should be load limited.
Sometimes you can't. Some architectures don't even take a trap, and on others (FR-V without MMU) it's an imprecise exception.
-- dwmw2
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