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From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Cc: "Will Deacon" <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	"Måns Rullgård" <mans@mansr.com>,
	"Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	ak@linux.intel.com, "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 22:51:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110526215101.GL24876@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1105261650330.3207@xanadu.home>

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 05:03:39PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> It is possible that -fconserve-stack is still valuable on ARM given that 
> it is also used with -mno-unaligned-access for other things than 
> structure packing on the stack, and therefore its merits can be debated 
> independently from the alignment issue at hand.

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.

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From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: Do not allow unaligned accesses when CONFIG_ALIGNMENT_TRAP
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 22:51:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110526215101.GL24876@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1105261650330.3207@xanadu.home>

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 05:03:39PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> It is possible that -fconserve-stack is still valuable on ARM given that 
> it is also used with -mno-unaligned-access for other things than 
> structure packing on the stack, and therefore its merits can be debated 
> independently from the alignment issue at hand.

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.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-26 21:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-23 11:16 [PATCH] ARM: Do not allow unaligned accesses when CONFIG_ALIGNMENT_TRAP Catalin Marinas
2011-05-23 12:30 ` Måns Rullgård
2011-05-23 13:25   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-23 13:21 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-23 13:51   ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-23 14:37     ` Måns Rullgård
2011-05-23 14:41       ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-23 14:52       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-24  9:39   ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-24 14:17     ` Måns Rullgård
2011-05-24 15:26       ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-24 16:23         ` Måns Rullgård
2011-05-24 17:26           ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-05-24 17:13         ` Dave Martin
2011-05-25 11:14           ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-25 12:43             ` Dave Martin
2011-05-25 13:32               ` Måns Rullgård
2011-05-25 14:05                 ` Dave Martin
2011-05-25 14:48                   ` Måns Rullgård
2011-05-25 14:50                 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-25 14:53                   ` Måns Rullgård
2011-05-26 17:10                   ` Will Deacon
2011-05-26 17:10                     ` Will Deacon
2011-05-26 18:14                     ` Måns Rullgård
2011-05-26 18:14                       ` Måns Rullgård
2011-05-26 19:58                     ` Andi Kleen
2011-05-26 19:58                       ` Andi Kleen
2011-05-26 21:03                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-05-26 21:03                       ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-05-26 21:10                       ` Andi Kleen
2011-05-26 21:10                         ` Andi Kleen
2011-05-26 21:26                         ` Måns Rullgård
2011-05-26 21:26                           ` Måns Rullgård
2011-05-27 10:05                         ` Will Deacon
2011-05-27 10:05                           ` Will Deacon
2011-05-27 16:53                           ` Andi Kleen
2011-05-27 16:53                             ` Andi Kleen
2011-05-26 21:51                       ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2011-05-26 21:51                         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-26 22:29                         ` Andi Kleen
2011-05-26 22:29                           ` Andi Kleen
2011-05-27  8:38                         ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-27  8:38                           ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-27  8:54                           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-27  8:54                             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-27  9:51                             ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-27  9:51                               ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-27  9:56                               ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-27  9:56                                 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-27 12:46                               ` Måns Rullgård
2011-05-27 12:46                                 ` Måns Rullgård
2011-05-28 15:34                                 ` [PATCH] Disable -fconserve-stack on ARM Andi Kleen
2011-05-28 15:34                                   ` Andi Kleen
2011-05-31 16:30                                   ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-31 16:30                                     ` Catalin Marinas
2011-05-31 18:01                                     ` Andi Kleen
2011-05-31 18:01                                       ` Andi Kleen
2011-06-02 13:08                                       ` Catalin Marinas
2011-06-02 13:08                                         ` Catalin Marinas
     [not found] <mailman.254.1306496353.1533.linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
2011-05-27 12:14 ` [PATCH] ARM: Do not allow unaligned accesses when CONFIG_ALIGNMENT_TRAP Frank Hofmann

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