RE: [PATCH v11] lib: checksum: Use aligned accesses for ip_fast_csum and csum_ipv6_magic tests

[David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>]

From: Arnd Bergmann
> Sent: 04 March 2024 13:40
...
> > If not, then the test has to be fixed to only use word-aligned IPv6
> > addresses.
> 
> Because of the gcc issue I mentioned, net/ipv6/ip6_checksum.c
> and anything else that accesses misaligned ipv6 headers may need
> to be changed as well. Marking in6_addr as '__packed __aligned(2)'
> should be sufficient for that. This will prevent gcc from issuing
> ldm or ldrd on ARMv6+ as well as making optimization based on
> the two lower bits of the address being zero on x86 and others.

Eh? x86 pretty much doesn't care unless you are using AVX.

> The downside is that it forces 16-bit loads and stores to be
> used on architectures that don't have efficient unaligned
> access (armv5, alpha, mips, sparc and xtensa among others)
> even when the IP headers are fully aligned.

Aren't the later accesses to the header also going to fault?
IIRC there is an skb_pull() call to ensure all the IP header
is in the linear skb fragment?
Perhaps there should be an skb_pull_aligned() that will ensure
the data is 32bit aligned on systems where the misaligned accesses
fault?

There might still need to be something to stop gcc generating
ldm/ldrd which can fault on systems where a normal register
read wouldn't.

Do any recent arm cpu have the strongarm 'feature' than ldm
always took 16 clocks?

	David
 

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