[PATCH v2] ARM: alignment: Prevent ignoring of faults with ARMv6 unaligned access model

Nicolas Pitre nicolas.pitre at linaro.org
Tue Jul 26 17:51:47 EDT 2011


On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 05:28:57PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > Why not clearing the U bit as well as the A bit to preserve consistency 
> > with the pre ARMv6 behavior?
> 
> Because some CPUs have the U bit forced to 1.  IOW, it's not possible to
> disable it.

Oh well...


Nicolas



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