[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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