[dm-devel] unaligned access by multipathd logging

[christophe varoqui]

Nice piece of brain work, thanks.

I applied this patch, and it will appear as commit
544bfcea0e63d32d4cf79abb97b6e78918fb5511 on kernel.org git repository.

Regards,
cvaroqui

On jeu, 2005-05-05 at 17:42 -0400, Jun'ichi Nomura wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Logging code in multipathd cause unaligned access
> which, on ia64, yields logs on both console and syslog like:
> unaligned access to 0x60000000000141d1, ip=0x4000000000009d81
> 
> It's harmless except for the slight performance effect.
> However, it's annoying for users and better to fix.
> 
> Attached patch aligns the la->tail to pointer size.
> Patch is created on multipath-tools 0.4.4.
> Please consider to apply.
>