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From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>,
	Lance Yang	 <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, amaindex@outlook.com,
	 anna.schumaker@oracle.com, boqun.feng@gmail.com,
	fthain@linux-m68k.org,  ioworker0@gmail.com,
	joel.granados@kernel.org, jstultz@google.com,
	 leonylgao@tencent.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org, longman@redhat.com,
	mhiramat@kernel.org,  mingo@redhat.com, mingzhe.yang@ly.com,
	oak@helsinkinet.fi, peterz@infradead.org, 	rostedt@goodmis.org,
	senozhatsky@chromium.org, tfiga@chromium.org, will@kernel.org,
		stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] hung_task: fix warnings caused by unaligned lock pointers
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 09:37:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b94030984037e54a61f762f9aa62776ecd8082af.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdVMw3nUMtXhfhB5mgmsEZNuagna=6ywOuRsRRMFXHYwbA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 2025-09-10 at 09:34 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > Isn't m68k the only architecture that's weird like this?
> > 
> > Yes, and it does this on Linux only. I have been trying to change it upstream
> > though as the official SysV ELF ABI for m68k requires a 4-byte natural alignment [1].
> 
> M68k does this on various OSes and ABIs that predate or are not
> explicitly compatible with the SysV ELF ABI.

I know. I was talking in the context of SysV ELF systems.

> Other architectures like CRIS (1-byte alignment!) are no longer supported
> by Linux.

Yes, that's why we should take care of the alignment ;-).

> FWIW, doubles (and doublewords) are not naturally aligned in the
> SysV ELF ABI for i386, while doubles (no mention of doublewords)
> are naturally aligned in the SysV ELF ABI for m68k.

I wouldn't consider i386 a role model for us ;-).

Adrian

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  reply	other threads:[~2025-09-10  7:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-09-09 14:52 [PATCH v2 1/1] hung_task: fix warnings caused by unaligned lock pointers Lance Yang
2025-09-09 16:46 ` Kent Overstreet
2025-09-09 16:55   ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2025-09-09 19:02     ` Kent Overstreet
2025-09-10  0:45     ` Finn Thain
2025-09-10  7:34     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2025-09-10  7:37       ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz [this message]
2025-09-10  0:07   ` Finn Thain
2025-09-10  0:51     ` Kent Overstreet
2025-09-10  1:35       ` Finn Thain
2025-09-10  1:48         ` Kent Overstreet
2025-09-10  6:40           ` Finn Thain
2025-09-10  6:52     ` Andreas Schwab
2025-09-10  7:39       ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2025-09-10  7:45         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2025-09-10  8:02       ` Finn Thain
2025-09-10 11:26         ` Andreas Schwab
2025-09-10  7:36     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2025-09-10 11:57       ` Kent Overstreet
2025-10-07 20:56         ` Andrew Morton
2025-10-08  0:40           ` Finn Thain
2025-10-08  3:03             ` Lance Yang
2025-10-08  6:14               ` Finn Thain
2025-10-08  7:09                 ` Lance Yang
2025-10-08  7:23                   ` Lance Yang
2025-10-08 10:12                     ` Finn Thain
2025-10-08 13:48                       ` Lance Yang
2025-10-08 21:55                         ` Finn Thain
2025-10-09  2:01                           ` Lance Yang
2025-10-09  4:04                             ` Andrew Morton
2025-10-09  7:11                               ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2025-10-14 10:11                                 ` David Laight
2025-10-08 12:56             ` Eero Tamminen

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