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Re: XFS Fails Quality Assurance Tests on ARM

To: Byron Bradley <byron.bbradley@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: XFS Fails Quality Assurance Tests on ARM
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:36:46 -0500
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Byron Bradley wrote:

> esandeen in #xfs pointed me towards this bug,
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=414932 , and suggested
> that I compare the size and offset of stucts between x86 and ARM. After
> modifying over 40 structs to give them the same offsets as x86 the problem
> is still present. I have already tried the patch by Greg Ungerer from 2004
> but again this didn't change anything. I also tried compiling the kernel
> and userspace tools with an 8-bit structure size boundary but it made no
> difference.
> 
> Further details of my attempts are at
> http://www.linkstationwiki.net/index.php/Buffalo_ARM9_Kernel_Port#XFS_Arm_Issues
> . I will keep this up to date until we find a solution.

Can you put information up there about the structure alignment problems
you found, and the patch you tried?

-Eric

> Anybody got any ideas of how we fix this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 


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