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From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] input: fix unaligned access in key_matrix_decode_fdt()
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 13:29:24 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51AE4014.10808@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1369248498-1799-1-git-send-email-swarren@wwwdotorg.org>

On 05/22/2013 12:48 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> From: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
> 
> Initialized character arrays on the stack can cause gcc to emit code that
> performs unaligned accessess. Make the data static to avoid this.
> 
> Note that the unaligned accesses are made when copying data to prefix[] on
> the stack from .rodata. By making the data static, the copy is completely
> avoided. All explicitly written code treats the data as u8[], so will never
> cause any unaligned accesses.

Tom, does this patch look good?

The discussion following it was unrelated to this patch, but rather
related to pre-processing of device-trees, so I don't think should
prevent this patch being merged.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-06-04 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-22 18:48 [U-Boot] [PATCH] input: fix unaligned access in key_matrix_decode_fdt() Stephen Warren
2013-05-26 19:28 ` Simon Glass
2013-05-26 20:55   ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-05-26 21:29     ` Simon Glass
2013-05-28  4:07   ` Stephen Warren
2013-06-04 19:29 ` Stephen Warren [this message]
2013-06-05 12:34 ` [U-Boot] " Tom Rini
2013-06-06 14:47   ` Tom Rini

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