From: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macq.eu>
To: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] m68knommu: align BSS section to 4-byte boundaries
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 15:34:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201012133405.GA24704@frolo.macqel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201012043432.787588-1-gerg@linux-m68k.org>
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 02:34:32PM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote:
> The kernel start up code for all of the nommu m68k types expects the
> BSS section to be on a 4-byte boundary, and to be a whole number of 32bit
> words. The BSS initialization loop sets 32bit sized quantities and has
> no provision for odd or unaligned accesses.
>
> Although this has always been the case, in practice the BSS was typically
> aligned and sized this way. The problem was first observed after commit
not aligned and sized ... ?
Best regards
Philippe
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2020-10-12 4:34 [PATCH] m68knommu: align BSS section to 4-byte boundaries Greg Ungerer
2020-10-12 13:34 ` Philippe De Muyter [this message]
2020-10-12 14:00 ` Greg Ungerer
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