Subject: Re: alignment faults in 3.6

From: Benjamin LaHaise <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:22:54 -0400

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 02:08:12PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> So yes, we built network stack with the prereq that IP headers are
> aligned, but unfortunately many developers use x86 which doesnt care, so
> its possible some bugs are added.

x86 does have an alignment check flag that can be set in the flags register.  
Somehow, I doubt anyone would be willing to walk through all the noise the 
faults would likely trigger.

		-ben
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