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Commit 5010192d authored by Dave Martin's avatar Dave Martin Committed by Russell King
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ARM: 7583/1: decompressor: Enable unaligned memory access for v6 and above



Modern GCC can generate code which makes use of the CPU's native
unaligned memory access capabilities.  This is useful for the C
decompressor implementations used for unpacking compressed kernels.

This patch disables alignment faults and enables the v6 unaligned
access model on CPUs which support these features (i.e., v6 and
later), allowing full unaligned access support for C code in the
decompressor.

The decompressor C code must not be built to assume that unaligned
access works if support for v5 or older platforms is included in
the kernel.

For correct code generation, C decompressor code must always use
the get_unaligned and put_unaligned accessors when dealing with
unaligned pointers, regardless of this patch.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
Acked-by: default avatarNicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
parent 2b6e204f
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