Re: [PATCH] Do not inline putprops function

On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 22:19 +0530, M. Mohan Kumar wrote:

Hi,

When I align the dtstruct variable to 8 bytes, I am able to invoke kdump.

When the line
	static unsigned dtstruct[TREEWORDS], *dt;
changed to 
	static unsigned dtstruct[TREEWORDS] __attribute__ ((aligned (8))), *dt;

kexec-tool works.

Hmm, odd.

Can you check how it's aligned without your change? ie. in the original
binary, is it 4 byte aligned?

When you make the change, is the only thing that changes in the binary
the alignedness of dtstruct, or does it cause other things to move
around?

I don't think an unaligned dt blob should have any effect on the kernel,
ie. it should copy it in fine, but I'd have to look at the code.

cheers