Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] Unify asm/unaligned.h around struct helper

Vineet Gupta
2021-05-14T18:52:37Z

On 5/14/21 10:32 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 3:02 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> wrote:
>> I've included this version in the asm-generic tree for 5.14 already,
>> addressing the few issues that were pointed out in the RFC. If there
>> are any remaining problems, I hope those can be addressed as follow-up
>> patches.
> This continues to look great to me, and now has the even simpler
> remaining implementation.
>
> I'd be tempted to just pull it in for 5.13, but I guess we don't
> actually have any _outstanding_ bug in this area (the bug was in our
> zlib code, required -O3 to trigger, has been fixed now,

Wasn't the new zlib code slated for 5.14. I don't see it in your master yet

> and the biggy
> case didn't even use "get_unaligned()").

Indeed this series is sort of orthogonal to that bug, but IMO that bug
still exists in 5.13 for -O3 build, granted that is not enabled for !ARC.

-Vineet

>
> So I guess your 5.14 timing is the right thing to do.
>
> Linus