On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> For some weird reason, our gcc until 4.3 (fixed in 4.3) had the weird
> idea that the alignment attribute should not be allowed to force an
> alignment greater than 32k. If attempted, it would warn -and- crop the
> alignment to 32k.
[...]
> This has a few issues for us:
>
> - The patch that converted bits of powerpc to the new macro break since
> it now hits that bug
Hi Ben,
Just to make sure I understand the nature of the problem, is the current
breakage that gcc < 4.3 will _warn_ on any compilation units on ppc64 that
use __page_aligned data, or something worse?
The cropping is clearly a potential problem, but I read the rest of your
email as saying that the cropping of the alignment isn't actually a
problem with the current kernel because the kernel is currently only using
the macro with things whose size is divisible by PAGE_SIZE. However, I am
not sure how to reconcile that with using the word "break" above...
-Tim Abbott
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