Re: [PATCH 2/2] Tracepoints: Fix section alignment using pointerarray

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Feb 02 2011 - 17:20:58 EST


On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 13:31 -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>
> > > History:
> > >
> > > commit 7e066fb870fcd1025ec3ba7bbde5d541094f4ce1 added the aligned(32) type and
> > > variable attribute to the tracepoint structures to deal with gcc happily
> > > aligning statically defined structures on 32-byte multiples.
> > >
> > > commit 15e3540ce2159705f18fad6147ffedf04445ad64 tried to use a 8-byte alignment
> > > for tracepoint structures by applying both the variable and type attribute to
> > > tracepoint structures definitions and declarations. It worked fine with gcc
> > > 4.5.1, but broke with gcc 4.4.4 and 4.4.5.
> >
> > Small nit: this reference to commit 15e3540ce2159705f18fad6147ffedf04445ad64
> > should be changed to a non-commit-id-related explanation, because the commit has
> > been rolled back from -tip.
>
> OK, I just did a git commit --amend to fix it. Here's the new text:
>
>
> commit 7e066fb870fcd1025ec3ba7bbde5d541094f4ce1 added the aligned(32) type a

Can you please use the common format

commit 7e066fb8(what ever the subject line of the commit was)

That's way more helpful than a full sha1.

Thanks,

tglx
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