On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 08:56:21PM +0300, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
Depending on ABI "long long" type of a particular 32-bit CPU might be aligned by either word (32-bits) or double word (64-bits). Make sure "data" is really 64-bit aligned for any 32-bit CPU.
At least for 32-bit ARC cores ABI requires "long long" types to be aligned by normal 32-bit word. This makes "data" field aligned to 12 bytes. Which is still OK as long as we use 32-bit data only.
But once we want to use native atomic64_t type (i.e. when we use special instructions LLOCKD/SCONDD for accessing 64-bit data) we easily hit misaligned access exception.
That's because even on CPUs capable of non-aligned data access LL/SC instructions require strict alignment.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin abrodkin@synopsys.com Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Changes v1 -> v2:
- Reworded commit message
- Inserted comment right in source [Thomas]
drivers/base/devres.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Always use scripts/get_maintainer.pl to properly cc: the needed developer/maintainer. As it is, this patch is going to get dropped on the floor, sorry...
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