Re: [Xen-devel] Unaligned writes on the kexec path

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 29.11.11 at 11:49, Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> On 29/11/11 05:51, Simon Horman wrote:
>> Hi Keir, Hi Andrew,
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 08:42:16PM +0000, Keir Fraser wrote:
>>> On 28/11/2011 14:24, "Andrew Cooper" <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> In c/s 7493bb48d89f, you change the internals of kexec_crash_save_info()
>>> The patch is by Simon Horman, cc'ed, not me.
> 
> Right.  Sorry.  I should have remembered that basing "who wrote the
> patch" on a simple hg log was not a safe bet.

I don't think there's much room for improvement - all members of
crash_xen_info_t are of "unsigned long" type, but ELF note handling
will only ever guarantee 4-byte alignment.

Jan


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