On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 11:20:19PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> In that case, there should be no problem for you.
>
> The main issue is with system calls and ioctls that contain a misaligned
> struct member like
>
> struct s {
>u32 a;
>u64 b;
> };
>
> Passing this structure by r
On 4/20/21 12:07 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 5:10 AM Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 02:48:17AM +, Vineet Gupta wrote:
32-bit architectures which expect 8-byte alignment for 8-byte integers
and need 64-bit DMA addresses (arc, arm, mips, ppc) ha
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 11:14 PM Vineet Gupta
wrote:
> On 4/20/21 12:07 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >
> > which means that half the 32-bit architectures do this. This may
> > cause more problems when arc and/or microblaze want to support
> > 64-bit kernels and compat mode in the future on their la
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 09:39:54AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
> > @@ -97,10 +97,10 @@ struct page {
> > };
> > struct {/* page_pool used by netstack */
> > /**
> > -* @dm
From: Geert Uytterhoeven
> Sent: 20 April 2021 08:40
>
> Hi Willy,
>
> On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 4:49 AM Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > Replacement patch to fix compiler warning.
> >
> > 32-bit architectures which expect 8-byte alignment for 8-byte integers
> > and need 64-bit DMA addresses (arc, arm,
Hi Willy,
On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 4:49 AM Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Replacement patch to fix compiler warning.
>
> From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)"
> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 16:34:55 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] mm: Fix struct page layout on 32-bit systems
> To: bro...@redhat.com
> Cc: linux-ker...@
On 17/04/2021 01.07, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> 32-bit architectures which expect 8-byte alignment for 8-byte integers
> and need 64-bit DMA addresses (arc, arm, mips, ppc) had their struct
> page inadvertently expanded in 2019. When the dma_addr_t was added,
> it forced the alignment of the
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 5:10 AM Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 02:48:17AM +, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> > > 32-bit architectures which expect 8-byte alignment for 8-byte integers
> > > and need 64-bit DMA addresses (arc, arm, mips, ppc) had their struct
> > > page inadvertently e
