Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 00:35:18 +0200
From: Tomislav Greguric <greguric AT stud DOT uni-frankfurt DOT de>
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Subject: Re: file asm/bugs.h in kernel 2.4.4
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Hi Marc!

On Sun, 06 May 2001, Marc Lehmann wrote:

> It means that the fxsr struct is misaligned (becauzse of compiler bugs ;).
> Instead of crashing at runtime the kernel checks for this.

Enabling Symmetric Multi Processing (CONFIG_SMP=y, which also
automatically sets CONFIG_HAVE_DEC_LOCK=y) in the kernel seems either
to fix the alignment or to circumvent the check for misalignment.

/tg