[fedora-arm] Broken sha512sum in coreutils / forcing alignment fixup and logging in initscripts

[Gordan Bobic]

On 01/08/2011 08:04 PM, Chris Tyler wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 14:59 -0500, Chris Tyler wrote:
>> I also think that it's unnecessary to eliminate all alignment issues --
>> in many cases, kernel fixups may actually be cheaper to run than the
>> defensive code necessary to avoid them, and hardware fixups are even
>> cheaper. Furthermore, running on an armv7 or higher processor won't
>> trigger the alignment traps at all, so we won't even know that there are
>> issues (just as we don't know, nor care, in an x86 context).
>
> (Let me clarify that an app that's generating thousands of alignment
> traps a second should get some attention! I'm talking about the more
> typical case of a handful of traps a day).

If it's only a handful per day, then that's a good argument for a 
fixup+signal - get the core dump so you can actually find out what the 
data that caused the problem was.

Gordan