On 9/15/21 12:18 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 8:52 PM Guenter Roeck [off-list ref] wrote:

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This patch series introduces absolute_pointer() to fix the problem.
absolute_pointer() disassociates a pointer from its originating symbol
type and context, and thus prevents gcc from making assumptions about
pointers passed to memory operations.

Ok, I've applied this to my tree.

I note that the physical BOOT_PCB addresses in the alpha setup.h file
might be useful for things like MILO in user space, but since I
couldn't even find MILO sources any more, I couldn't really check.

I suspect alpha is basically on life support and presumably nobody
would ever compile a bootloader anyway, so it's unlikely to matter.

If somebody does find any issues, we'll know better and we can ask
where the user space sources are that might use that alpha setup.h
file.

FWIW, I did find a set of MILO sources. Search for milo-2.2-18.tar.bz2;
it points to a variety of gentoo mirrors.
That version does not reference BOOT_PCB. I thought about removing this
define as well as a couple of other unused defines, but wanted to keep
the changes minimal.

On a side note, we may revive the parisc patch. Helge isn't entirely
happy with the other solution for parisc; it is quite invasive and
touches a total of 19 files if I counted correctly.

Thanks,
Guenter