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From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
To: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Futexes IV (Fast Lightweight Userspace Semaphores)
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 15:26:31 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203051525460.1475-100000@blue1.dev.mcafeelabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020305231747.5F95B3FE06@smtp.linux.ibm.com>

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Hubertus Franke wrote:

> On Tuesday 05 March 2002 05:39 pm, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > > +	pos_in_page = ((unsigned long)uaddr) % PAGE_SIZE;
> > > +
> > > +	/* Must be "naturally" aligned, and not on page boundary. */
> > > +	if ((pos_in_page % __alignof__(atomic_t)) != 0
> > > +	    || pos_in_page + sizeof(atomic_t) > PAGE_SIZE)
> > > +		return -EINVAL;
> >
> > How can this :
> >
> > 	(pos_in_page % __alignof__(atomic_t)) != 0
> >
> > to be false, and together this :
> >
> > 	pos_in_page + sizeof(atomic_t) > PAGE_SIZE
> >
> > to be true ?
> > This is enough :
> >
> > 	if ((pos_in_page % __alignof__(atomic_t)) != 0)
> >
> >
>
> I believe not all machine have  alignof  == sizeof

Yes but this is always true   alignof >= sizeof




- Davide



  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-05 23:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-05  7:01 [PATCH] Futexes IV (Fast Lightweight Userspace Semaphores) Rusty Russell
2002-03-05 21:23 ` Futexes III : performance numbers Hubertus Franke
2002-03-06  2:08   ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-06 14:28     ` Hubertus Franke
2002-03-06 17:23       ` [Lse-tech] " george anzinger
2002-03-07  0:25     ` Hubertus Franke
2002-03-07  0:35     ` Hubertus Franke
2002-03-05 22:39 ` [PATCH] Futexes IV (Fast Lightweight Userspace Semaphores) Davide Libenzi
2002-03-05 23:16   ` Hubertus Franke
2002-03-05 23:26     ` Davide Libenzi [this message]
2002-03-05 23:37       ` Peter Svensson
2002-03-05 23:50         ` Davide Libenzi
2002-03-08  0:07       ` Richard Henderson
2002-03-06  1:46   ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-06  2:03     ` Davide Libenzi
2002-03-06  7:54 ` Futexes III : performance numbers Rusty Russell
2002-03-06 14:46   ` Hubertus Franke
2002-03-06 16:13   ` Hubertus Franke
2002-03-06 20:36     ` Futexes V : Hubertus Franke
2002-03-07  4:21     ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-08 18:07 ` [PATCH] Futexes IV (Fast Lightweight Userspace Semaphores) Linus Torvalds
2002-03-08 19:03   ` Hubertus Franke
2002-03-08 19:22     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-08 20:29       ` Hubertus Franke
2002-03-08 20:48         ` Matthew Kirkwood
2002-03-08 21:02         ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-08 23:15           ` Hubertus Franke
2002-03-08 23:36             ` Alan Cox
2002-03-08 23:41             ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-08 23:56               ` Hubertus Franke
2002-03-09  2:12                 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-11 14:14                   ` Hubertus Franke
2002-03-09  0:03               ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-09  1:15                 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-10 19:41                   ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-11 20:49                     ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-10 19:58                   ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-03-10 20:40                     ` Alan Cox
2002-03-10 20:28                       ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-03-10 21:05                         ` Alan Cox
2002-03-13  7:40                   ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-13 16:37                     ` Alan Cox
2002-03-12  9:35                 ` Helge Hafting
2002-03-08 20:40       ` Alan Cox
2002-03-08 20:57         ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-08 23:43           ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-08 22:55         ` Hubertus Franke
2002-03-08 23:38           ` Alan Cox
2002-03-08 23:44           ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-08 20:47       ` george anzinger
2002-03-08 23:02         ` Hubertus Franke
2002-03-08 23:47           ` george anzinger
2002-03-09  1:11             ` Alan Cox
2002-03-09  1:20             ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-09  4:49     ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-11 22:45       ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-11 23:12         ` Hubertus Franke
2002-03-12  7:20         ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-12 14:56           ` Hubertus Franke
2002-03-13  4:02             ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-12 17:17           ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-13  2:57             ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-09  4:51 ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-13  9:12 Martin Wirth
2002-03-13 19:41 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-03-13 19:52   ` Dave McCracken
2002-03-13 22:17     ` Bill Davidsen
2002-03-13 20:06   ` Alan Cox
2002-03-15  7:31 ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-15  8:41   ` Martin Wirth
2002-03-15 15:29     ` Hubertus Franke
2002-03-15 16:23     ` Peter Wächtler
2002-03-16  0:12       ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-16 11:23         ` Martin Wirth
2002-03-18  0:52           ` Ulrich Drepper
2002-03-19  3:28             ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-19  4:05               ` Ulrich Drepper
2002-03-20  6:20                 ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-20 10:42                   ` Peter Wächtler
2002-03-20 17:20                     ` Ulrich Drepper
2002-03-19  8:34               ` Martin Wirth
2002-03-20  6:45                 ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-21  6:48                   ` Martin Wirth
2002-03-24 18:25                     ` Peter Wächtler
2002-03-25  2:28                       ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-25  4:46                         ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-25 11:56                           ` Peter Wächtler
2002-03-26  1:02                             ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-26  8:17                               ` Martin Wirth
2002-03-26 23:10                                 ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-27 21:05                                   ` Hubertus Franke
2002-03-27 23:53                                     ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-25  9:47                         ` Peter Wächtler
2002-03-16 19:48         ` Peter Wächtler
2002-03-17  6:50         ` Rusty Russell

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