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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:40:27 +0200

> btw., just one (really stupid) question here: can ftrace_call be 
> misaligned, and is misalignment a problem on Sparc? If it's not a 
> problem then disregard the rest of the mail.

Every instruction must be 4-byte aligned on sparc.

Any instruction in the .text.* sections will thus always be 4-byte
aligned.

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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:40:27 +0200

> btw., just one (really stupid) question here: can ftrace_call be 
> misaligned, and is misalignment a problem on Sparc? If it's not a 
> problem then disregard the rest of the mail.

Every instruction must be 4-byte aligned on sparc.

Any instruction in the .text.* sections will thus always be 4-byte
aligned.