From: Arvind Gopalan <arvind_gopalan@yahoo.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: 4 byte mem alignment
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 23:26:46 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020929062646.97364.qmail@web14606.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
I wished someone to confirm the following: Is it a
requirement for the user space buffer that is provided
to the recvfrom() socket call, be 4 byte aligned?.
Note that sockets are raw sockets (PF_PACKET type). I
am running linux 2.4.18-10 on a dual xeon P4 (x86)
box. At the lowest level, i think this translates to
how strong the requirements are for copy_to_user().
does it fault to byte-by-byte mode gracefully when
given a non-4byte aligned buffer?.
Please include me in all replies, since i'm not
subscribed to the list
Thanks
-Arvind
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next reply other threads:[~2002-09-29 6:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-29 6:26 Arvind Gopalan [this message]
2002-09-29 6:23 ` 4 byte mem alignment David S. Miller
2002-09-29 7:00 ` Arvind Gopalan
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