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From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Nicolas Pitre" <nico@fluxnic.net>,
	"Will Deacon" <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	"Måns Rullgård" <mans@mansr.com>,
	"Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	sam@ravnborg.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: Do not allow unaligned accesses when	CONFIG_ALIGNMENT_TRAP
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 15:29:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DDED44E.9070402@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110526215101.GL24876@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>


> Catalin said in his mail "I haven't tried with -mno-unaligned-access, I
> suspect the variables on the stack would be aligned.".  So I don't think
> we know enough to say whether -mno-unaligned-access avoids the stack
> packing.

It won't, the arm gcc code just checks flag_conserve_stack.
IMHO it's just a gcc bug. You should report it to 
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla

As a temporary workaround you can disable it in the kernel too, but as soon
as the compiler it's fixed I would recommend considering to reenable it.

-Andi


  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-26 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <20110523132124.GI17672@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
     [not found]   ` <1306229953.19557.14.camel@e102109-lin.cambridge.arm.com>
     [not found]     ` <yw1xipt0p4i9.fsf@unicorn.mansr.com>
     [not found]       ` <BANLkTi=xLE9gP5YOdr9dR0DfsY1Ymzxu+w@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]         ` <20110524171331.GA2941@arm.com>
     [not found]           ` <20110525111405.GA12010@e102109-lin.cambridge.arm.com>
     [not found]             ` <20110525124348.GA2340@arm.com>
     [not found]               ` <yw1xaaeanbxe.fsf@unicorn.mansr.com>
     [not found]                 ` <BANLkTim2TOZgB-3Vkv5RcK572Qr07s3=CA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-05-26 17:10                   ` [PATCH] ARM: Do not allow unaligned accesses when CONFIG_ALIGNMENT_TRAP Will Deacon
2011-05-26 18:14                     ` Måns Rullgård
2011-05-26 19:58                     ` Andi Kleen
2011-05-26 21:03                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-05-26 21:10                       ` Andi Kleen
2011-05-26 21:26                         ` Måns Rullgård
2011-05-27 10:05                         ` Will Deacon
2011-05-27 16:53                           ` Andi Kleen
2011-05-26 21:51                       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-26 22:29                         ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2011-05-27  8:38                         ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-27  8:54                           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-27  9:51                             ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-27  9:56                               ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-27 12:46                               ` Måns Rullgård
2011-05-28 15:34                                 ` [PATCH] Disable -fconserve-stack on ARM Andi Kleen
2011-05-31 16:30                                   ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-31 18:01                                     ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-02 13:08                                       ` Catalin Marinas

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