Thread (10 messages) 10 messages, 5 authors, 2022-09-06

Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: compat: Implement misalignment fixups for multiword loads

From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Date: 2022-09-06 17:49:31

On Fri, 1 Jul 2022 15:53:22 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
The 32-bit ARM kernel implements fixups on behalf of user space when
using LDM/STM or LDRD/STRD instructions on addresses that are not 32-bit
aligned. This is not something that is supported by the architecture,
but was done anyway to increase compatibility with user space software,
which mostly targeted x86 at the time and did not care about aligned
accesses.

[...]
Applied to arm64 (for-next/misc), thanks!

[1/1] arm64: compat: Implement misalignment fixups for multiword loads
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/3fc24ef32d3b

-- 
Catalin


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