From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7AE0D329361 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:34:14 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1768347254; cv=none; b=uPB1z3/1NSjSxyzcoAcgqQ3Y5kwGzCSrNtLKFDzvkECKF50OYGA5EvUTyKqhP6cg9j9jTKYIEITSoHa62+nZY2k6r7+xiuhK01zELPUT7a9pU8VRECcAM2ZGI6Ltp+h1eDxVD+CXLkwLIeWeEo8TbKUbv1NOMMrWKjH3Ez09qlI= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1768347254; c=relaxed/simple; bh=KHGllkMUsT0chDcmCPHeNTpc1Q733tDOa2ZpDByi4oI=; h=Date:To:From:Subject:Message-Id; b=Ylm/3j5iB337nHMyIzkPWhjTlu3bAAqk2kJK3lBYDn0INPqhh+lK3+8uncVugoD//CTD8DFnKsF5loN4cyorHc2cezhOHNk9PFxVp21NjvaC4GaUXd3ym1B8gzOwYoL0hzkUwhMGTkXMOjJx1fRF+BujuG4zwzD2CEdXcVsP2nc= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linux-foundation.org header.i=@linux-foundation.org header.b=g8EZWSvj; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linux-foundation.org header.i=@linux-foundation.org header.b="g8EZWSvj" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 07C3CC116C6; Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:34:14 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linux-foundation.org; s=korg; t=1768347254; bh=KHGllkMUsT0chDcmCPHeNTpc1Q733tDOa2ZpDByi4oI=; h=Date:To:From:Subject:From; b=g8EZWSvjXQeC9AzH9RukfhyUS3lAS0shWFtudHFWwR2Ias5EVNyIQleK5/vIeyXdx EHFv1TN/OvXx2uJNbCKsWYC5DoYhcG28nyKkC6DuuU36WiKRVCPO5jko86P+JArZeU NrINmlNLahypnIKIWy4DAAOAAVwef2EXXYPjNppw= Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:34:13 -0800 To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,ysato@users.sourceforge.jp,yonghong.song@linux.dev,will@kernel.org,tglx@linutronix.de,stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi,song@kernel.org,shorne@gmail.com,sdf@fomichev.me,sashal@kernel.org,peterz@infradead.org,mingo@redhat.com,martin.lau@linux.dev,mark.rutland@arm.com,kpsingh@kernel.org,jonas@southpole.se,jolsa@kernel.org,john.fastabend@gmail.com,hpa@zytor.com,haoluo@google.com,guoren@kernel.org,glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de,geert@linux-m68k.org,gary@garyguo.net,eddyz87@gmail.com,dinguyen@kernel.org,dave.hansen@linux.intel.com,daniel@iogearbox.net,dalias@libc.org,bp@alien8.de,boqun.feng@gmail.com,ast@kernel.org,arnd@arndb.de,ardb@kernel.org,andrii@kernel.org,fthain@linux-m68k.org,akpm@linux-foundation.org From: Andrew Morton Subject: + atomic-add-option-for-weaker-alignment-check.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch Message-Id: <20260113233414.07C3CC116C6@smtp.kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: The patch titled Subject: atomic: add option for weaker alignment check has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is atomic-add-option-for-weaker-alignment-check.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/atomic-add-option-for-weaker-alignment-check.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via various branches at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there most days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Finn Thain Subject: atomic: add option for weaker alignment check Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:22:28 +1100 Add a new Kconfig symbol to make CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC more useful on those architectures which do not align dynamic allocations to 8-byte boundaries. Without this, CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC produces excessive WARN splats. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6d25a12934fe9199332f4d65d17c17de450139a8.1768281748.git.fthain@linux-m68k.org Signed-off-by: Finn Thain Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Andrii Nakryiko Cc: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Boqun Feng Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" Cc: Daniel Borkman Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Dinh Nguyen Cc: Eduard Zingerman Cc: Gary Guo Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Hao Luo Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Fastabend Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Jonas Bonn Cc: KP Singh Cc: Marc Rutland Cc: Martin KaFai Lau Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Rich Felker Cc: Sasha Levin (Microsoft) Cc: Song Liu Cc: Stafford Horne Cc: Stanislav Fomichev Cc: Stefan Kristiansson Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yonghong Song Cc: Yoshinori Sato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- include/linux/instrumented.h | 8 +++++++- lib/Kconfig.debug | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/include/linux/instrumented.h~atomic-add-option-for-weaker-alignment-check +++ a/include/linux/instrumented.h @@ -59,7 +59,13 @@ static __always_inline void instrument_r static __always_inline void instrument_atomic_check_alignment(const volatile void *v, size_t size) { #ifndef __DISABLE_EXPORTS - WARN_ON_ONCE(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC) && ((unsigned long)v & (size - 1))); + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC)) { + unsigned int mask = size - 1; + + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_LARGEST_ALIGN)) + mask &= sizeof(struct { long x; } __aligned_largest) - 1; + WARN_ON_ONCE((unsigned long)v & mask); + } #endif } --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug~atomic-add-option-for-weaker-alignment-check +++ a/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -1370,6 +1370,14 @@ config DEBUG_ATOMIC This option has potentially significant overhead. +config DEBUG_ATOMIC_LARGEST_ALIGN + bool "Check alignment only up to __aligned_largest" + depends on DEBUG_ATOMIC + help + If you say Y here then the check for natural alignment of + atomic accesses will be constrained to the compiler's largest + alignment for scalar types. + menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)" config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from fthain@linux-m68k.org are bpf-explicitly-align-bpf_res_spin_lock.patch atomic-specify-alignment-for-atomic_t-and-atomic64_t.patch atomic-add-option-for-weaker-alignment-check.patch