Re: [RFC Patch v1 45/55] ARC: unaligned access emulation

On Monday 12 November 2012, Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com wrote:

+
+config ARC_MISALIGN_ACCESS
+       bool "Emulate unaligned memory access (userspace only)"
+       default N
+       help
+         This enables misaligned 16 & 32 bit memory access from user space.
+         Use ONLY-IF-ABS-NECESSARY as it will be very slow and also can hide
+         potential bugs in code

parisc and ia64 both have the same feature, and they use sysctl to configure
it at run-time. Maybe you should pick one of the two sysctl implementations
and hook that up to your implementation as well.

	Arnd