Re: [NOISE] merge window blues, XFS broken

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:56:14PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Hmmmm - that would point to struct xfs_log_iovec being 12 bytes on
> ia32, similarly the struct xfs_log_vec may not be 8 byte aligned
> when allocated because pointers only require 4 byte alignement.
> 
> Hence the initial data buffer may be 4 byte aligned and so that will
> break the alignment requirement.


Yeah.  Shoulkd be enough to just align the initial lv_buf allocation.