From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263408AbTIWTAp (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:00:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263410AbTIWTAp (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:00:45 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:63451 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263406AbTIWTAn (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:00:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:47:44 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: davidm@hpl.hp.com Cc: davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com, kevin.vanmaren@unisys.com, peter@chubb.wattle.id.au, bcrl@kvack.org, ak@suse.de, iod00d@hp.com, peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au, linux-ns83820@kvack.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64 Message-Id: <20030923114744.137d5dac.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <16240.36993.148535.613568@napali.hpl.hp.com> References: <20030923105712.552dbb1e.davem@redhat.com> <16240.36993.148535.613568@napali.hpl.hp.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.2 (GTK+ 1.2.6; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:27:13 -0700 David Mosberger wrote: > - use the dmesg command to lower the printing threshold below KERN_WARNING > ("dmesg -n4", IIRC) Not terribly useful if all the unaligned messages made the one I'm interested in get kicked out of the logs. > - use prctl --unalign=silent to turn off unaligned printing for a > particular task and its children What about for the kernel? No other port is so obstinate about printing out unaligned kernel access messages, why does ia64 have to be so different? Unaligned accesses are not only perfectly fine in the kernel, they are in fact expected in certain circumstances.