Re: [PATCH 05/10] am68k/PCI: Remove unnecessary second application of align

Geert Uytterhoeven
2026-03-24T17:06:41Z

CC gerg

On Tue, 24 Mar 2026 at 17:59, Ilpo Järvinen
<ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> Aligning res->start by align inside pcibios_align_resource() is
> unnecessary because caller of pcibios_align_resource() is
> __find_resource_space() that aligns res->start with align before
> calling pcibios_align_resource().
>
> Aligning by align in case of IORESOURCE_IO && start & 0x300 cannot ever
> result in changing start either because 0x300 bits would have not
> survived the earlier alignment if align was large enough to have an
> impact.
>
> Thus, remove the duplicated aligning from pcibios_align_resource().
>
> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> arch/m68k/kernel/pcibios.c | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/m68k/kernel/pcibios.c b/arch/m68k/kernel/pcibios.c
> index 1415f6e4e5ce..7e286ee1976b 100644
> --- a/arch/m68k/kernel/pcibios.c
> +++ b/arch/m68k/kernel/pcibios.c
> @@ -36,8 +36,6 @@ resource_size_t pcibios_align_resource(void *data, const struct resource *res,
> if ((res->flags & IORESOURCE_IO) && (start & 0x300))
> start = (start + 0x3ff) & ~0x3ff;
>
> - start = (start + align - 1) & ~(align - 1);
> -
> return start;
> }
>
> --
> 2.39.5