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SubjectRe: ARM unaligned MMIO access with attribute((packed))
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From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 21:45:22 +0000

> On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 01:38:31PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
>> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 16:37:02 +0000
>>
>> > 1. there's no way to tell GCC that the inline assembly is a load
>> > instruction and therefore it needs to schedule the following
>> > instructions appropriately.
>>
>> Just add a dummy '"m" (pointer)' asm input argument to the inline asm
>> statement. Just make sure "typeof(pointer)" has a size matching the
>> size of the load your are performing.
>
> That involves this problematical cast from a packed struct pointer to
> an unsigned long pointer, which according to the C standard and GCC
> folk is undefined.

It's alignment may be undefined, but it's size definitely is well
defined and that's what matters here.

> Practice over the last 15 years on ARM has also shown that this is not
> necessary.

Sorry oh big super man, little ole' me is only a kernel newbie.


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