On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 05:57:08 am David Miller wrote:

From: Dmitry Torokhov <redacted>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 08:58:29 -0800

quoted

But, theoretically speaking, nothing stops GCC to align pointers with
"gaps" as well? Let's say having everything (or some) aligned on
quadword boundary even though arch is 32 bit?

The alignment business only applies to aggregates (ie. structs and
unions).

This has been confirmed via several weeks of expermentation with
different GCC versions on different platforms as well.

But OTOH, this is an old problem which was faced by module params since
pre-git.  And we use the-align-to-void*-size method there; I vaguely recall
inserting it.

You've now got me wondering whether these platforms have broken builtin
module parameters, but I think it would crash iterating if you had any
boot parameters at all if that were the case.

So do we fix that now too, or wait for it to break?
Rusty.