[Xen-ia64-devel] Re: [PATCH] IA64: Kdump: 64-bit aligned access to elf-note data

[Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 11:39 +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> xen_core_regs, as passed by kexec_crash_save_info(), is 32-bit aligned as
> it is the data section of an ELF-note. In order to ensure 64-bit aligned
> access when xen_core_regs is filled in, shift it a bit and then memmove()
> the data back into the 32-bit aligned location after the values have been
> written.
> 
> Without this change kdump panics on an unaligned-access.

   Applied.  Thanks,

        Alex

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Alex Williamson                             HP Open Source & Linux Org.


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