From: js@sig21.net (Johannes Stezenbach)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: decompressor: clear SCTLR.A bit for v7 cores
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:16:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121025141645.GA16962@sig21.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50893389.2090002@gmail.com>
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 07:41:45AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> On 10/25/2012 04:34 AM, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 07:43:22AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> >
> >> While v6 can support unaligned accesses, it is optional and current
> >> compilers won't emit unaligned accesses. So we don't clear the A bit for
> >> v6.
> >
> > not true according to the gcc changes page
>
> What are you going to believe: documentation or what the compiler
> emitted? At least for ubuntu/linaro 4.6.3 which has the unaligned access
> support backported and 4.7.2, unaligned accesses are emitted for v7
> only. I guess default here means it is the default unless you change the
> default in your build of gcc.
Since ARMv6 can handle unaligned access in the same way as ARMv7
it seems a clear bug in gcc which might hopefully get fixed.
Thus in this case I think it is reasonable to follow the
gcc documentation, otherwise the code would break for ARMv6
when gcc gets fixed.
Johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-25 14:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-05 1:23 [PATCH v2 0/5] Use more asm-generic headers Rob Herring
2012-08-05 1:23 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] ARM: use generic version of identical asm headers Rob Herring
2012-08-05 1:23 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] ARM: add strstr declaration for decompressors Rob Herring
2012-08-05 1:23 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] ARM: use generic unaligned.h Rob Herring
2012-10-08 16:43 ` Shawn Guo
2012-10-08 20:34 ` Rob Herring
2012-10-08 23:28 ` Shawn Guo
2012-10-09 2:27 ` Rob Herring
2012-10-09 2:45 ` Shawn Guo
2012-10-09 4:01 ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-10-10 13:29 ` Rob Herring
2012-10-10 13:57 ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-10-11 12:43 ` [PATCH] ARM: decompressor: clear SCTLR.A bit for v7 cores Rob Herring
2012-10-11 13:09 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-10-11 13:31 ` Rob Herring
2012-10-11 13:41 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-10-11 15:44 ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-10-23 20:32 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2012-10-25 12:07 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-10-11 13:59 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-10-11 15:58 ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-10-25 9:34 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2012-10-25 12:41 ` Rob Herring
2012-10-25 13:30 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-10-25 14:16 ` Johannes Stezenbach [this message]
2012-10-25 14:25 ` Rob Herring
2012-10-25 15:02 ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-10-25 15:08 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2012-11-05 10:48 ` Dave Martin
2012-11-05 11:13 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-11-05 13:02 ` Dave Martin
2012-11-05 13:43 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2012-11-05 15:39 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-11-05 16:13 ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-11-05 17:26 ` Dave Martin
2012-11-05 17:44 ` Rob Herring
2012-11-05 20:02 ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-11-05 17:46 ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-11-05 13:48 ` Rob Herring
2012-11-05 22:02 ` Michael Hope
2013-02-20 14:56 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2013-02-20 15:07 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2012-08-05 1:23 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] ARM: use generic termios.h Rob Herring
2012-08-05 1:24 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] ARM: convert asm/irqflags.h to use asm-generic/irqflags.h Rob Herring
2012-08-05 9:34 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] Use more asm-generic headers Thomas Petazzoni
2012-08-06 14:35 ` Arnd Bergmann
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