Re: [PATCH] asm-generic: allow generic unaligned access if the arch supports it

[Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 06:24:04PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 28 March 2014 19:14, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> > On Thursday 27 March 2014, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >> Switch the default unaligned access method to 'hardware implemented'
> >> if HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS is set.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> >
> > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> >
> > Is this part of a longer series of patches? If so, please keep
> > the patch with the others and merge it through an appropriate
> > tree.
> >
> 
> No, not really. I ran into the alignment issue while working on the
> arm64 crypto stuff, but it is unclear when that will be going in.
> 
> > If not, I guess I'll have to send it myself, but it will be
> > the only asm-generic patch for the merge window ;-)
> 
> Perhaps Catalin is interested in taking it, as arm64 is the only arch
> that defines HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS /and/ uses the
> asm-generic version of unaligned.h.
> 
> @Catalin?
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-arch&m=139594237116121&w=2

I can take this, providing it doesn't break anything else. I'll push it
to -next but won't send it with the first arm64 pull request.

-- 
Catalin