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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ftrace: Allow section alignment

On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Matt Fleming wrote:
>
> I've tried to explain the bug better in the attached patch. The issue
> is not that there were gaps in __mcount_loc, rather that the addresses
> in __mcount_loc were not aligned on a 4-byte boundary by the
> assembler. Unaligned accesses are not supported by our architecture
> and an alignment of 1-byte will likely lead to performance loss on
> architectures that do support them.

This is what I was looking for ;-)

Yes, I was just telling Peter on IRC, that this might just be an
architecture request. Which I find as a legitimate reason. But because
there was no mention of that in the change log, I would have to NACK it.


Ingo,

I'll pull this in my tree and test it first. Then I'll pass it off to you.

-- Steve



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