Bug#397616: /proc/cpu/alignment should default to warn and fixup on arm

2008-05-06 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Riku Voipio [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-05-04 22:07]: 2) warnings can cause bad side-effects (imagine a unaligned error in sysklogd..) http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/34044 I think that's a good argument for not changing the upstream default. So I think we should close

Bug#397616: /proc/cpu/alignment should default to warn and fixup on arm

2008-05-04 Thread Riku Voipio
I think this should be pushed via upstream. In the following thread, it seems to be concluded that 1) fixups should be default 2) warnings can cause bad side-effects (imagine a unaligned error in sysklogd..) http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/34044 On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at

Bug#397616: /proc/cpu/alignment should default to warn and fixup on arm

2008-04-25 Thread Martin Michlmayr
I'd like to hear Riku's opinion on this. But I'm inclined not to move away from the upstream default, although I must admit that Sjoerd has good arguments for changing it. Maybe you could ask upstream whether it's time to change the default to a warning? * Sjoerd Simons [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#397616: /proc/cpu/alignment should default to warn and fixup on arm

2007-11-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Sjoerd Simons [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-11-08 14:02]: By default the ARM kernel just ignores unaligned accesses from userspace and can just accesses another address then actually specified. This can cause strange behaviour by userspace programs. ... Nothing has been done with regards to

Bug#397616: /proc/cpu/alignment should default to warn and fixup on arm

2006-11-08 Thread Sjoerd Simons
Package: linux-2.6 Severity: normal Hi, By default the ARM kernel just ignores unaligned accesses from userspace and can just accesses another address then actually specified. This can cause strange behaviour by userspace programs. While i agree that these programs are somewhat buggy,

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2006-11-08 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#397616: /proc/cpu/alignment should default to warn and fixup on arm

2006-11-08 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Sjoerd Simons [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-11-08 14:02]: Some discussion on #debian-arm indicates that it the current default Can you make logs of that discussion available? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#397616: /proc/cpu/alignment should default to warn and fixup on arm

2006-11-08 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 06:46:38PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Sjoerd Simons [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-11-08 14:02]: Some discussion on #debian-arm indicates that it the current default Can you make logs of that discussion available? Sure, wookey had some extra comments after i asked

Bug#397616: /proc/cpu/alignment should default to warn and fixup on arm

2006-11-08 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Sjoerd Simons [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-11-08 21:07]: Sure, wookey had some extra comments after i asked for permission to post it so i've added those too: http://beast.luon.net/~sjoerd/arm_unaligned.log http://netwinder.osuosl.org/users/b/brianbr/public_html/alignment.html Ok, thanks for