[PATCH] ARM: compressed: discard ksym/kcrctab input section

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On 12 October 2017 at 10:45, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 11:24:57AM +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
>> Hi Ard,
>>
>> Can we move forward to fix the booting problem ?
>>
>> What about amending your commit log with this new information and then
>> submit it to Russell patch system?
>
> Well, I think there's a choice that needs to be made between this
> approach and Arnd's approach.
>
> I'm not all that thrilled with the need to add explicit alignment to
> data that is inherently a byte stream, and that invariably results in
> unaligned data words even if you do align the start of it.  That
> sounds to me very much like a hack rather than a proper solution.
> So, right now I'm leaning more towards Arnd's solution than Ard's
> from what's been said in this thread.
>

I agree that the struct type unaligned accessors are the best choice
for ARM in any case, given that it will also prevent hitting the
alignment fixup handler in the kernel unnecessarily.

> However, I don't recall Arnd's patch, it's probably buried deep in
> my mailbox.
>

Well, unless you are considering changing the unaligned accessors from
access_ok.h to le_struct.h as a bugfix, I think we need both patches.