[fedora-arm] e2fsprogs alignment

Chris Tyler chris at tylers.info
Mon Jul 9 15:42:45 UTC 2012


On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 16:23 +0100, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> This issue also affects SPARC and Itanium, IIRC, likely a lot of others, 
> too. It's only x86 and ARMv7+ that  have transparent automatic alignment 
> fixup in hardware.

On ARM <v7, there are software fixups via trap, which is basically the
same as the hardware fixups but with a lot higher cost. For quite a few
kernel releases, fixups have defaulted to ON. Are we sure there's still
an issue here?

-Chris



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