[PATCH 1/3] ARM: nommu: allow unaligned accesses on ARMv6+ processors
Will Deacon
will.deacon at arm.com
Mon Dec 3 12:56:41 EST 2012
Commit 8428e84d ("ARM: 7150/1: Allow kernel unaligned accesses on ARMv6+
processors") unconditionally clears SCTLR.A for ARMv6+ processors, since
newer toolchains assume that unaligned memory accesses will not fault
for these cores.
This patch adds the corresponding change for nommu kernel builds.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
---
Identical to Armando's recent patch but included here for completeness.
arch/arm/kernel/head-nommu.S | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/head-nommu.S b/arch/arm/kernel/head-nommu.S
index 278cfc1..2c228a0 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/head-nommu.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/head-nommu.S
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ __after_proc_init:
* CP15 system control register value returned in r0 from
* the CPU init function.
*/
-#ifdef CONFIG_ALIGNMENT_TRAP
+#if defined(CONFIG_ALIGNMENT_TRAP) && __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ < 6
orr r0, r0, #CR_A
#else
bic r0, r0, #CR_A
--
1.8.0
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