This series adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and atomic64_t
definitions in include/linux and include/asm-generic (respectively)
to get natural alignment of both types on csky, m68k, microblaze,
nios2, openrisc and sh.
This series also adds Kconfig options to enable a new run-time warning
to help reveal misaligned atomic accesses on platforms which don't
trap that.
The performance impact is expected to vary across platforms and workloads.
The measurements I made on m68k show that some workloads run faster and
others slower.
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Changed since v5:
- Added acked-by and revewed-by tags.
- Added a new macro to inhibit emission of __bug_table section, for the
benefit of pre-boot code like the EFI stub loader.
Changed since v4:
- Dropped parisc header file patch as it's been merged already.
- Submitted as PATCH instead of RFC.
Changed since v3:
- Rebased on v6.17.
- New patch to resolve header dependency issue on parisc.
- Dropped documentation patch.
Changed since v2:
- Specify natural alignment for atomic64_t.
- CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC checks for natural alignment again.
- New patch to add weakened alignment check.
- New patch for explicit alignment in BPF header.
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Finn Thain (3):
bpf: Explicitly align bpf_res_spin_lock
atomic: Specify alignment for atomic_t and atomic64_t
atomic: Add option for weaker alignment check
Peter Zijlstra (1):
atomic: Add alignment check to instrumented atomic operations
arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile | 1 +
include/asm-generic/atomic64.h | 2 +-
include/asm-generic/rqspinlock.h | 2 +-
include/linux/instrumented.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++
include/linux/types.h | 2 +-
kernel/bpf/rqspinlock.c | 1 -
lib/Kconfig.debug | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
8 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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2.49.1