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RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH] xentrace buffer alignment

To: "Rob Gardner" <rob.gardner@xxxxxx>, "Masaki Kanno" <kanno.masaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH] xentrace buffer alignment
From: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 13:58:25 +0800
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>From: Rob Gardner
>Sent: 2005年11月24日 12:50
>>
>
>Hmmm, x86-64 must have more relaxed alignment rules than ia64, since all
>that works ok on an athlon64. You may want to also check and make sure
>tools/xentrace_format still works (assuming it ever worked on ia64). The
>python code in that script is sensitive to structure packing.
>

That works ok because x86-64 may close the alignment check (Just hear that it's 
closed in most case), however now ia64 keeps it on. If you try to enable that 
flag, I think you will saw the same fault. That's generic to all 64bit 
platform, and then final phenomenon depends.

Thanks,
Kevin

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