Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Oct 22 2007 - 15:50:51 EST




On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
> Better safe than sorry...
>
> Is it possible that a chain entry pointer has bit 1 set on architectures
> (e.g. m68k) where the natural alignment of 32-bit quantities is _2_ bytes,
> not 4?

Better make sure that such alignment never happens... But no, I don't
think it will, since these things would generally always have to be
allocated with an allocator, and the *allocator* won't return 2-byte
aligned data structures.

Linus
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