module: simplify version-attribute handling
Instead of using the array-of-pointers trick to avoid having gcc mess up the built-in module-version array stride, specify type alignment when declaring entries to prevent gcc from increasing alignment. This is essentially an alternative (one-line) fix to the problem addressed by commit b4bc8428 ("module: deal with alignment issues in built-in module versions"). gcc can increase the alignment of larger objects with static extent as an optimisation, but this can be suppressed by using the aligned attribute when declaring variables. Note that we have been relying on this behaviour for kernel parameters for 16 years and it indeed hasn't changed since the introduction of the aligned attribute in gcc-3.1. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201103175711.10731-1-johan@kernel.org Signed-off-by:Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
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