[ofa-general] Re: [RFC/PATCH] mthca: ensure alignment of doorbell writes

akepner at sgi.com akepner at sgi.com
Thu Oct 18 09:50:01 PDT 2007


On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 09:34:45PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:

> > Patch looks good, but don't you have the same 64-bit 
> > alignment problem in mthca_write_db_rec() ?
> 
> Good point.  Arthur?

Yeah - I wouldn't have seen this since I wasn't using a 
memfree card for testing (and it'd depend on where the 
db_rec variable was placed on the stack frame, too.)

Anyway, it sure looks like it could be a problem. 

-- 
Arthur




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