Re: [PATCH] asm-generic: allow generic unaligned access if the arch supports it

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On 28 March 2014 19:14, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 27 March 2014, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> Switch the default unaligned access method to 'hardware implemented'
>> if HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS is set.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Is this part of a longer series of patches? If so, please keep
> the patch with the others and merge it through an appropriate
> tree.
>

No, not really. I ran into the alignment issue while working on the
arm64 crypto stuff, but it is unclear when that will be going in.

> If not, I guess I'll have to send it myself, but it will be
> the only asm-generic patch for the merge window ;-)
>

Perhaps Catalin is interested in taking it, as arm64 is the only arch
that defines HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS /and/ uses the
asm-generic version of unaligned.h.

@Catalin?

http://marc.info/?l=linux-arch&m=139594237116121&w=2

Regards,
Ard.
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